Griot Quotes

#1. Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Alex Haley

#3. Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?

David Mutti Clark

#4. You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?

David Mutti Clark

#5. Hmm, it may have taken him thirty-five years, but he finally found himself a woman with a good sense of direction.

Pamela Tracy

#6. I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

B.B. King

#7. This poet is a griot in search of a village.

Kwame Dawes

#8. You're all I think about. My mind is constantly consumed by you, and it scares the hell out of me.

Abi Ketner

#9. It's so good to know that inside us there's a self that knows everything!

Hermann Hesse

#10. I preserve my world
in journals so my children
can eat without me

Nikki Skies

#11. I feel very silly saying to you, Tell me all about yourself, but I wish you would. I want to get to know you.
That's not how you get to know people. Don't you know? You can't talk it out, you've got to live into their lives, bad and good. You'll know me soon enough. What I want you to know.

Katherine Paterson

#12. I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.

Malik Yusef

#13. sometimes it's easier to search for treasure than to find it, because finding it forces you to make decisions about what to do with it, and it makes you fear the reality of how hard it may be to keep it without becoming a slave to it!

The Urban Griot

#14. The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound.

David Mutti Clark

#15. 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

#16. In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society.

Adam J. Banks

#17. And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

David Mutti Clark

#18. We start our lives with blues ... with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.

David Mutti Clark

#19. I'm sure that in Germany people also took an oath of secrecy. We know what that eventually led to. If it works that way with us, the sanctions for breaking the secrecy are nothing compared to the sanctions there could be if we're silent. All

Studs Terkel

#20. To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

Isaac Watts