Diop Quotes

#1. Cinema is magic in the service of dreams.

Djibril Diop Mambety

#2. It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

Carl Hiaasen

#4. The word griot ... is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society ... the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

Djibril Diop Mambety

#5. In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the laboratory; I doubt if the sagacity of the researchers who have studied the question has overlooked the possibility.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#6. there are no fruitful speculations outside of reality.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#7. Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal. Humanitarian declarations are not called for and add nothing to real progress.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#8. I keep everything that's private private.

Kate Bosworth

#9. Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#10. I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

Jeff Goldblum

#11. The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Octavian Paler

#12. Pharaoh Chephren (circa 2600 B.C., Fourth Dynasty), who built the second Giza pyramid.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#13. Egypt's prestige abroad was so intact that the "King" of Tyre declared: "All industries came from Egypt and all sciences first shone forth there" (cf. Pirenne, II, 505).

Cheikh Anta Diop

#14. Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

Cheikh Anta Diop

#15. Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#16. Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.

Birdman

#17. Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa

Cheikh Anta Diop

#18. European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

Cheikh Anta Diop