Sundiata Quotes

“How few things good fortune prizes!'
Yes, the day you are fortunate is also the day when you are the most unfortunate, for in good fortune you cannot imagine what suffering is.”
― D. T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

“The lion has walked.”
― Djibril Tamsir Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

“We are vessels of speech, we are the repositories which harbour secrets many centuries old. The art of eloquence has no secrets for us; without us the names of kings would vanish into oblivion, we are the memory of mankind; by the spoken word we bring to life the deeds and exploits of kings.”
― Djibril Tamsir Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

“He was great among kings, he was peerless among men.”
― Djibril Tamsir Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali