Diversity, the quantifiable totality of every possible difference, is the motor driving universal energy, and it must be safe guarded from assimilati… - Édouard Glissant
" "Diversity, the quantifiable totality of every possible difference, is the motor driving universal energy, and it must be safe guarded from assimilations, from fashions passively accepted as the norm, and from standardized customs.
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About Édouard Glissant
Édouard Glissant (21 September 1928 – 3 February 2011) was a Martinican writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic. He is an influential figure in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary and Francophone literature.
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As far as my identity is concerned, I will take care of it myself. That is, I shall not allow it to become cornered in any essence; I shall also pay attention to not mixing it into any amalgam. Rather, it does not disturb me to accept that there are places where my identity is obscure to me, and the fact that it amazes me does not mean I relinquish it.
I thus am able to conceive of the opacity of the other for me, without reproach for my opacity for him. To feel in solidarity with him or to build with him or to like what he does, it is not necessary for me to grasp him. It is not necessary to try to become the other (to become other) nor to "make" him in my image.
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