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… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me. — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share
Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring. — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share
The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share
The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share
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… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share
“New York! I say New York, let black blood flow into your blood. Let it wash the rust from your steel joints, like an… — Léopold Sédar Senghor Copy Share
I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share
