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Quotes About Négritude

Haiti où la négritude se mit debout pour la première fois et dit qu'elle croyait à son humanité.
~ Aimé Césaire
my negritude riddles with holesthe dense affliction of its worthy patience.
~ Aimé Césaire
21?At the last school prize-giving ceremony in Dakar, the president of the Republic of Senegal, Léopold Senghor, announced that negritude should be included in the school curriculum. If this decision is an exercise in cultural history, it can only be approved. But if it is a matter of shaping black consciousness it is simply turning one's back on history which has already noted the fact that most "Negroes" have ceased to exist.
~ Frantz Fanon
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
~ Randall Kennedy