The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love. - Mariama Bâ

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.

A woman must marry the man who loves her, but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

Ousmane Gueye, who had mistrusted all women, threw himself at the mercy of a woman, and a white woman at that.