Cesaire Quotes

#1. In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

Robert Powell

#2. When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

Luther Vandross

#3. It is not a dead society that we want to revive. We leave that to those who go in for exoticism.

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#4. There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

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#5. I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

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#6. I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

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#7. Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.

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#8. There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

Nick Kroll

#9. Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

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#10. There are people, even today, who thought and still think that it is all simply a matter of the left taking power in France, that with a change in the economic conditions the black question will disappear. I think that the economic question is important, but it is not the only thing.

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#11. Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.

Pierre Corneille

#12. Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

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#13. In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

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#14. A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.

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#15. Your face
like a village asleep at the bottom of a lake
which is reborn to daylight from the grass and from the year
germinates

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#16. Promise me you'll be careful, my boy." She handed him the pack she'd assembled.
"Don't worry. The Wolf has no interest in me," he said, smiling through his pain. "I'm all gristle.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#17. Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.

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#18. A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

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#19. If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.

Glenn Beck

#20. It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

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#21. He was enough of a lover of forms to understand the allure of such a strict life, how much internal wildness it could release.

Lauren Groff

#22. Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened.

Laozi

#23. Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.

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#24. Alas! There's no one in hell ... all the devils are here!

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#25. Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

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#26. Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes ...

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#27. With a camera, a microphone, and sufficient cash, you, too, can craft your own version of the world and emblazon it with a premium of fear over facts. (Be warned though: Paranoid schizophrenia makes for compelling film, but it's no way of life.)

David T. Hardy

#28. The weakness of most men
they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

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#29. Like the scorpion's question mark
drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight

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#30. In fact, you could say that I became a poet by renouncing poetry.

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#31. And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty ... And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

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#32. Do not make me into that man of hatred for whom I feel only hatred.

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#33. The forest remembers that the last word can only be
the flaming cry of the bird of ruins in the bowl of the storm

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#34. To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.

Dillon Burroughs

#35. If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment

Frank A. Clark

#36. Beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of the spectator, because life is not a spectacle, because a a sea of sorrows is not a proscenium, because a man who screams is not a dancing bear.

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#37. Even then Communists would reproach me for speaking of the Negro problem - they called it my racism. But I would answer: Marx is alright, but we need to complete Marx. I felt that the emancipation of the Negro consisted of more than just a political emancipation.

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#38. I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.

Sandra Bernhard