Aimé Césaire

Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), full name Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a Martiniquen (French) writer, poet, playwright, and author. He was involved in anticolonialist movement. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and known for coined the word négritude in French. He founded the Parti progressiste martiniquais in 1958, and served in the French National Assembly from 1945 to 1993 and as President of the Regional Council of Martinique from 1983 to 1988.

Wisdom & Quotes

• 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.

- speaking to the World Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris

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