Leopold Sedar Senghor quotes

Leopold Sedar Senghor quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

Source : Leopold Sedar Senghor (1965). “Prose and Poetry”

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

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“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

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“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

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“Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.”
-- Leopold Sedar Senghor

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“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

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“The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.”
-- Leopold Sedar Senghor

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