Fatou Quotes & Sayings

In a moment a world will lose its focus and become a different place. They say that blind people have been struck by their affliction without warning, and that Helen Keller found language and light in a word. For me, I suddenly knew, viscerally at least, a number of things about my town that I'd only ever suspected. The dog was a girl. The dog was a native girl. I dug her out of the snow with more care than I'd ever lifted a porcupine or a snapping rat, and feeling that she was still somewhat warm, that her wrappings of rags had protected her from the cold of a Manitoba winter, I placed my jacket around her and covered her head with my hat. Then I set a pace back to the farm that left a taste of blood in my mouth, freezing my lungs by running at minus thirty. — Barry Pomeroy

I am an African and I am very proud of that. — Fatou Bensouda

Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite. — Jason Read

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims. — Fatou Bensouda

A false religion is like the imitation of high fashion. The very presence of counterfeits proves the existence of the real. There would be no imitations without a genuine product. God's original design has always had imitators and counterfeits! — Billy Graham

I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride, — Fatou Bensouda

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. — Katharine Hepburn

I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate. — Fatou Bensouda

Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal "no". As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms. — Fatou Bensouda

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital. — Bob Dylan

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice. — Fatou Bensouda

Our pets are our family. — Ana Monnar

What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes. — Fatou Bensouda

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening. — Susanna Hoffs

that in modern life we overuse the "fight, flight, or freeze" response, because we respond to many situations as if they are life-threatening when they are not. As a result, our nervous systems don't have time to recover, because we are activating this response too frequently. — Linda Lantieri

Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. — John Roecker

I think my track record speaks for myself ... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate. — Fatou Bensouda

The relational aspect of all things is the music that sets life and the universe dancing. — Dee Hock

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up. — Ed Koch

Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university — Khalil Osiris

Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest. — Debasish Mridha

till, silently
without one peep, the angels come, their watch to keep.
They'll hold you safe while dreaming deep. The pillow cool beneath your head,
all star lit is your feather bed which glides the moonbeams like a sled,
above towns which glitter blue and red. — Dixie Dawn Miller Goode

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day. — Alice Childress