Life doesn’t always introduce you to the people you want to meet. Sometimes, life puts you in touch with the people you need to meet to help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you, and to gradually strengthen you into the person you were meant to become.
Someone’s probably in love with you right now, even though you think you’re boring and stupid and smell bad most of the time, someone probably saw you last week and wiped their sweaty hands on the insides of their pockets and thought about your body under your clothing and about how you would look asleep in their bed.
The Congress of Negro Writers and Artists September 19, 1956
Jacques Rabemananjara 2nd from left, Emile Saint-Lot (Haitian), Alioune Diop, Mme Price-Mars (Haitian), Jean Price-Mars (Haitian), Paul Hazoume, Léopold Sédar Senghor (president of Senegal), Jacques Stephen-Alexis (Haitian), Georges Lamming. (At La Sorbonne)
The Congress of Black Writers and Artists (French: Congrès des écrivains et artistes noirs; originally called the Congress of Negro Writers and Artists) is a meeting of leading black intellectuals for the purpose of addressing the issues of colonialism, slavery, and Négritude. The First Congress of Black Writers and Artists was organized by the panafrican quarterly cultural, political, and literary review Présence Africaine. It was held in Paris in September 1956. Ahmed Sékou Touré spoke at the Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists, which was held in Rome in 1959.
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