Top 17 Sekou Toure Quotes
#1. He wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks.
Jon McGregor
#2. You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
Patrick Ness
#3. But it does imply that the search for scapegoats - a particularly alluring pastime in individualistic cultures such as ours in the United States - is a blind alley.
Peter M. Senge
#4. Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#5. I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.
Carol Burnett
#6. Making movies is really hard, and it can be humbling. And once you put them out into the world, you can't control how people will respond to it.
James Ponsoldt
#7. The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
Darrell Royal
#9. Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
Solomon Burke
#10. To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.
Ahmed Sekou Toure
#11. The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
Iris Murdoch
#12. Our work is a scream of freedom.
Christo
#13. The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
Hugh Walpole
#14. When you understand what love is you will understand that mercy and forgiveness feels better than any form of revenge.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.
Frederick Lenz
#16. I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#17. Neil wanted to tell them death was no reason to hold back, but he found their humanity interesting.
Nora Sakavic
