'To prevent the
development of all national consciousness in the colonized, the colonizer
pushes the colonized to desire an abstract equality. But equality refuses to
remain abstract. And what an affair it is when the colonized takes back the
word on his own account to demand that it not remain a mere word!'
- Aimé Césaire,
Décolonisation pour les Antilles
Cited in Nick Nesbitt's
Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant
(2013)
