"The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future."

-- Djibril Diop Mambety

#Roles Quotes #Visionaries Quotes #Messengers Quotes

“Great God, grant that twice two be not four.”
“Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.”
“Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.”
“I took a lot from friends, but also me.”

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“The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.”

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“It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and PlatoÃs heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.”
“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”
“But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.”

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