35 quotes found
"We tell stories from our own perspective with the goal of inspiring young Africans, and in the process, educating the general public."
"We want to rewrite the history from our perspective, and not the perspective of what we read, which is often negatively biased towards Africa."
"“It’s important to have role models, role models that look like you and representation matters, for it gives hope and courage to pursue one’s endeavors."
"Art is a way of externalising this that I feel deep inside me that this"
"What is important to me In my work is to exceed my limit to set myself challenges and be able to achieve them"
"I'm happy when I finished my novel and seen my family after a good day of very exhausting works"
"I wish Dakar is a clean city much more cultural"
"Yes, I saw her at twilight. She was taking off from the edge of her window and disappeared on the horizon."
"And the seas will invade the courtyard, thundering its triumph in the middle of our rooms."
"the board is casting an excessively long shadow on the table" (p.9)"
"Whenever he felt himself beginning to fancy any girl, after the Ouleymatou experience, the memory of her mocking indifference and his own disillusionment had made him fiercely determined to nip any emotional attachment in the bud."
"Ousmane Gueye, who had mistrusted all women, threw himself at the mercy of a woman, and a white woman at that."
"Was he a possible partner for Mireille? Could he assume such a mutation."
"A Toubab can’t be a proper daughter-in-law. She’ll only have eyes for her man. We’ll mean nothing to her."
"We saw everything through the same eyes before we were married… But now we seem to be divided over everything."
"Love knows no bounds, but sometimes society does."
"The truth can be a harsh and cruel reality."
"In the face of misogyny and injustice, the only hope is escape."
"“Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.""
"“The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love.”"
"“Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.”"
"“The most humble of huts is pleasing when it is clean; the most luxurious setting offers no attraction if it is covered in dust.”"
"“Teachers – at kindergarten level, as at university level – form a noble army accomplishing daily feats, never praised, never decorated. An army without drums, without gleaming uniforms. This army, thwarting traps and snares, everywhere plants the flag of knowledge and morality.”"
"“Books saved you. Having become your refuge, they sustained you. The power of books, this marvelous invention of astute human intelligence. Various signs associated with sound: different sounds that form the word. Juxtaposition of words from which springs the idea, Thought, History, Science, Life. Sole instrument of interrelationships and of culture, unparalleled means of giving and receiving. Books knit generations together in the same continuing effort that leads to progress. They enabled you to better yourself. What society refused you, they granted.”"
"“The word ‘happiness’ does indeed have meaning, doesn’t it? I shall go out in search of it.”"
"“A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.”"
"“A woman must marry the man who loves her, but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.”"
"“In a word, a man’s success depends on feminine support.”"
"“Try explaining to them that a working woman is no less responsible for her home. Try explaining to them that nothing is done if you do not step in, that you have to see to everything, do everything all over again: cleaning up, cooking, ironing. There are the children to be washed, the husband to be looked after. The working woman has a dual task, of which both halves, equally arduous, must be reconciled.”"
"Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love."
"And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end."
"Try explaining to them that a working woman is no less responsible for her home... There are the children to be washed, the husband to be looked after. The working woman has a dual task, of which both halves, equally arduous, must be reconciled. How does one go about this? Therein lies the skill that makes all the difference to a home."
"Clothed in my dignity, the only worthy garment, I go my way."
"Books saved you. Having become your refuge, they sustained you. The power of books, this marvelous invention of astute human intelligence. Various signs associated with sound: different sounds that form the word. Juxtaposition of words from which springs the idea, Thought, History, Science, Life. Sole instrument of interrelationships and of culture, unparalleled means of giving and receiving. Books knit generations together in the same continuing effort that leads to progress. They enabled you to better yourself. What society refused you, they granted."
"The research we are aiming for seeks to improve cooperation between business and the community by building ‘knowledge webs’, a goal that is in phase with Europe’s target of evolving from an ‘information society’ to a ‘knowledge society’."