It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint. -Aime Cesaire

 

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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This quote is just one of 5 total Aime Cesaire quotes in our collection. Aime Cesaire is known for saying 'It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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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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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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. -Aime Cesaire
129

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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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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