Sembene Quotes

#1. I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.

Kola Boof

#2. I need you to to know that it was always you who had my heart.

Colleen Hoover

#3. The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

Ousmane Sembene

#4. Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes and vibrates. By studying patterns on the Sun's surface, astronomers can learn much about Sol's internal construction.

Seth Shostak

#5. It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.

Ousmane Sembene

#6. I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

Bonnie McKee

#7. God is holy, and to see His holiness means to do it His way.

James MacDonald

#8. I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

Sasha Grey

#9. If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

Deb Caletti

#10. A cool breeze laden with iodine blew in from the sea.

Ousmane Sembene

#11. Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty

Ousmane Sembene

#12. At the moment the eyes of the body closed, the eyes of the mind were opened.

Ousmane Sembene

#13. All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#14. So welcome the wind and the wisdom she offers, follow her summons when she calls again.
In your heart and your spirit, let the breezes surround you.
Lift up your voice then and sing with the wind.

John Denver

#15. You don't smile when you're holding on. You smile when you're letting go.

Taylor Adams

#16. However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

Ousmane Sembene

#17. What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

Chris Bohjalian

#18. 10 Print "The 80s are fab!" 20 Goto 10 Run

Steven Howlett

#19. I don't know what my secret is. Tell me about yours, teach me about the secret of each one of us.

Clarice Lispector

#20. So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

John Fante

#21. If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.

Helen Dunmore