"My mouth shall be the mouth of those calamities that have no mouth, my voice the freedom of those who break down in the prison holes of despair."
— Writing

January 1, 1970

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Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939), Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, as translated and edited by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith (2001), p. 13