Ousmane Sembène Quotes
1923–2007 Senegal
Ousmane Sembène (1 January 1923 or 8 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer.
- Senegal
- Film directors
- Film producers
- Novelists
Also known as: God's Bits of Wood, Xala
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Today, I will bring back something to eat.
God's Bits of Wood (1960)
Just as nature re-imposes its life on ruins with small tufts of grass, the ancestral atavism of fetishism was being reawakened in El Hadji.
Xala (1973)
God forgive me, I had forgotten Maimouna.
God's Bits of Wood (1960)
I told you yesterday, Rama, that I couldn’t do anything more for you, or for any of the striker’s families.
God's Bits of Wood (1960)
Daughter, don't you know that in this country the man who is in gaol is better off than the worker or the peasant? No taxes to pay and in addition you are fed, lodged, and cared for."
Xala (1973)
The faces seemed to have lost all trace of personality. As if some giant eraser had rubbed out their individual traits they had taken on a common mask, the anonymous mask of a crowd.
God's Bits of Wood (1960)
In effect, he had three villas and three wives, but where was his real home? At the houses of the three wives he was merely 'passing through.' Three nights each! He had nowhere a corner of his own into which he could withdraw and be alone."
Xala (1973)
El Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was what one might call a synthesis of two cultures: business had drawn him into the European middle class after a feudal African education. Like his peers, he made skillful use of his dual background, for their fusion was not complete.
Xala (1973)
Striking brutally through the cloud curtain, like the beam from some celestial projector, a single ray of light lashed at the Koulouba, the governor's residence, poised like a sugar castle on the heights that bore its name.
God's Bits of Wood (1960)
Today, for the first time in three months since he had slapped her on the afternoon of his wedding, they had had a serious conversation. Rama had been the only one who dared oppose the marriage. Pity she was a girl. He would have been able to make something of her had she been a boy."
Xala (1973)