Leopold Sedar Senghor Quotes

• 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

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

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• Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

  Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Art, Invisible, Force

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• El equilibrio que admira en mí es inestable, difícil de mantener. Mi vida interior se dividió muy pronto entre la llamada de los antepasados y la de Europa, entre las exigencias de la cultura negroafricana y las de la vida moderna.

  Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Europe, Black, Culture

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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

  Taken, Ideas, Care

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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

  Voice, Soul, Wish

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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

  Pain, Sleep, Passion

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• The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

  Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Teacher, Priests

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