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Aimé Césaire
“J’habite une blessure sacrée
j’habite des ancêtres imaginaires
j’habite un vouloir obscur
j’habite un long silence
j’habite une soif irrémédiable
j’habite un voyage de mille ans
j’habite une guerre de trois cent ans
j’habite un culte désaffecté
entre bulbe et caïeu j’habite l’espace inexploité
j’habite du basalte non une coulée
mais de la lave le mascaret
qui remonte la valleuse à toute allure
et brûle toutes les mosquées
je m’accommode de mon mieux de cet avatar
d’une version du paradis absurdement ratée
-c’est bien pire qu’un enfer-
j’habite de temps en temps une de mes plaies
chaque minute je change d’appartement
et toute paix m’effraie

tourbillon de feu
ascidie comme nulle autre pour poussières
de mondes égarés
ayant crachés volcan mes entrailles d’eau vive
je reste avec mes pains de mots et mes minerais secrets

j’habite donc une vaste pensée
mais le plus souvent je préfère me confiner
dans la plus petite de mes idées”
Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

Fernando Pessoa
“In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Ayi Kwei Armah
“You have a fullness you need to bring out. It's not an emptiness you need to cover up with things.”
Ayi Kwei Armah, Fragments

Fernando Pessoa
“What is there to confess that’s worthwhile or useful? What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it’s no novelty, and if only to us, then it won’t be understood. If I write what I feel, it’s to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant,”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
“Nationalism can only ever be a crucial political agenda against oppression. All longing to the contrary, it cannot provide the absolute guarantee of identity.”
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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