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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Aime Cesaire
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Aimé Fernand David Césaire was an Afro-Martinican poet, author, and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature and 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. He was also the Mayor of Fort-de-France for 56 years, from 1945 to 2001.
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