Top 12 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

Griots Quotes #270425
#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.

Griots Quotes #764028
#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

Griots Quotes #894675
#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

Griots Quotes #1301542
#5. Let your inhibitions go. Make every touch electrical. When you're feeling beautiful, will you remember me?"
~Easily

Matthew J. Bellamy

Griots Quotes #20004
#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

Griots Quotes #196937
#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

Griots Quotes #204265
#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

Griots Quotes #613718
#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

Griots Quotes #796918
#10. Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated.

Cassandra Clare

Griots Quotes #1237892
#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

Griots Quotes #1329864
#12. I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

Richard Russo

Griots Quotes #1426395

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