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. Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

Sam Amidon

#4. If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

J.M. Coetzee

#5. The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

James Baldwin

#6. That's Al Qaeda's new plan: to destroy America one period at a time.

Chelsea Handler

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

Leopold Sedar Senghor

#8. In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street "experts" were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.

Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea

James J. Houts

#9. It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.

Richie Norton

#10. I want to re-establish the people's trust in the office of president.

Andrej Kiska

#11. He enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body
his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with them under my pillow. He said that when he came back, we would remeasure his body against the string as proof that he hadn't changed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#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. Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#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