“Listen more often to things than to beings.”

— Birago Diop · Calm quote

Listen more often to things than to beings. — Birago Diop quote card
Senegalese poet and storyteller · 1906 – 1989

Birago Diop was a Senegalese poet and storyteller who retold Wolof folktales in Tales of Amadou Koumba and celebrated Africa's oral tradition in poems such as 'Breaths'.

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