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This paper proposes to differently read the most famous formula of Senghor: “The emotion is negro like the reason hellenic”. One lean on singular motif for the thought of Bidima: the vitality of the speech which assumes its mistakes. While following this motif, one then understands the negritude of Senghor like a thought moving, which shows the theoretical force of the ethnology. As the influence of Leo Frobenius enables Senghor to pass from the “Negritude ghetto” to the Civilization of the Universal one.