Griots Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Because the griots who compose these texts are part of a patriarchal system that frequently devalues women, we should not be surprised that their portrayals of YHWH allow the Divinity silently to consent to the women's abuse.

Hugh R. Page Jr.

#3. Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#4. Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

Quincy Jones

#5. Let your inhibitions go. Make every touch electrical. When you're feeling beautiful, will you remember me?"
~Easily

Matthew J. Bellamy

#6. I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

Novak Djokovic

#7. I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you.

Misty Copeland

#8. You asked me how old I am. I was born roughly nine centuries ago. I've lived for more than three hundred thousand days. And you made this one my favorite one of all."
-Uilleam MacRieve ~

Kresley Cole

#9. That's John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he'll find his way out. There's something in him - he's a great escape artist.

Matt Ryan

#10. Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated.

Cassandra Clare

#11. You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

Natalie Du Toit

#12. I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

Richard Russo