Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.
君子不救人,不是不愿意,而是能力不足。
We must resist the temptation to make African art merely illustrative of theory.
The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.