Sedar Senghor Quotes

#1. The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

Leopold Sedar Senghor

#2. Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

Leopold Sedar Senghor

#3. If you are not getting the results you want change your technique

Valarie Rocha

#4. Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#5. Chihaya, however, looked at her in surprise. "Why should I be sorry? Morning Star is here, and so are you." Saya was somewhat relieved, although a little annoyed that he put his horse before her.

Noriko Ogiwara

#6. I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.

Gordon Parks

#7. Fear of dying young isn't an altogether bad thing. Sometimes it makes you try what you might otherwise delay.

Jennifer Coburn

#8. Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring.

Leopold Sedar Senghor

#9. I believe in the power of you and I

Nikki Yanofsky

#10. In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest of the world

Slavoj Zizek

#11. Smaller plates discourage gluttony. But so does dining with dwarves.

Jarod Kintz

#12. The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.

Leopold Sedar Senghor

#13. I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

Leopold Sedar Senghor

#14. The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will be monstrous unless it is seasoned with the salt of negri-tude, for it will be without the savor of humanity.

Leopold Sedar Senghor

#15. The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

Orel Hershiser

#16. What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

Leopold Sedar Senghor