If there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick Douglass
“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-cell of despair.”
Martinican poet and statesman · 1913 – 2008
Martinican poet and politician who co-founded the Negritude movement with Leopold Senghor and Leon Damas. His Notebook of a Return to the Native Land is a landmark of anti-colonial poetry, written in a surge of surrealist imagery.
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