"Mumblers of Words"

Some favorite quotes from the poete et militant Aime Cesaire:

"And above all, my body as well as my soul, beware of assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of miseries is not a proscenium, a man screaming is not a dancing bear..."

"we sing of venomous flowers
flaring in fury-filled prairies"

—from "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land" 1983 translation.