Leopold Sedar Senghor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Civilization #Humanity #Unity
Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring.
-- Leopold Sedar Senghor

#Voice #Soul #Wish
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

#Pain #Passion #Sleep
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

#Europe #Black #Culture
Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.
-- Leopold Sedar Senghor

#Art #Invisible #Force
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

#Taken #Ideas #Care
The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.
-- Leopold Sedar Senghor

#Teacher #Priests

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
This is what our love isâ€“â€“a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.
After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

Leopold Sedar Senghor famous quotes

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