Ousmane Quotes & Sayings

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

I hear a guttural sound followed by a weak sigh and look back at the bodies.
"I'm going to kill the kid," Barrons says faintly.
Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bloody laugh. I don't think he even has the parts left to laugh with. "Get in line. — Karen Marie Moning

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted. — Martha Stewart

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

At the moment the eyes of the body closed, the eyes of the mind were opened. — Ousmane Sembene

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile. — Ousmane Sembene

I try to find where the fun is and go there and then get asked if I want to have more fun. That's the way I want my life to go. Follow the fun. — Danny Wallace

Others with names like myths, names like puzzles, names we had never heard before: Virgilio, Balamugunthan, Faheem, Abdulrahman, Aziz, Baako, Dae-Hyun, Ousmane, Kimatsu. When it was hard to say the many strange names, we called them by their countries.
So how on earth do you do this, Sri Lanka?
Mexico, are you coming or what?
Is it really true you sold a kidney to come to America, India?
Guys, just give Tshaka Zulu a break, the guy is old, I'm just saying.
We know you despise this job, Sudan, but deal with it, man.
Come, Ethiopia, move, move, move; Israel, Kazakhstn, Niger, brothers, let's go! — NoViolet Bulawayo

For me, fashion is not about reality. — Carine Roitfeld

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

Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up, and new verses were born at the hazard of chance or inspiration, one word leading to another and each finding, in its turn, its rhythm and its place. No one was very sure any longer where the song began, or if it had an ending. It rolled out over its own length, like the movement of a serpent. It was as long as a life. — Ousmane Sembene

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

Promises, is very much hidden. While trusting in their Savior for pardon and for help, and seeking to some extent to obey Him, they have hardly realized to what closeness of union, to what intimacy — Andrew Murray

A cool breeze laden with iodine blew in from the sea. — Ousmane Sembene

We are happy we soar very high and when we are not we fall into the depths of an abyss. — Amitav Ghosh

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse

If a man like that is killed, there is always another to take his place. That is not the important thing. But to act so that no man dares to strike you because he knows you speak the truth, to act so that you can no longer be arrested because you are asking for the right to live, to act so that all of this will end, both here and elsewhere; that is what should be in your thoughts. That is what you must explain to others, so that you will never again be forced to bow down before anyone, but also so that no one shall be forced to bow down before you. It was to tell you this that I asked you to come, because hatred must not dwell with you. — Ousmane Sembene

You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child ... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one. — Gore Vidal

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves. — Donalyn Miller

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it. — Courteney Cox