30 + core values of Meritah
- African culture and traditions -
dance quotes 


                                

From the spirits of the land inheritance

30 + core values of Meritah - African culture and traditions dance quotes, from the spirits of the land inheritance, to get you moved, moving, connected, thinking aligned and alert

"Culture is coded wisdom... in our songs, in our dances, in our plays" ~ Wangari MaathaiCulture is coded wisdom... in our songs, in our dances, in our plays
~ Wangari Maathai

Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes connecting the dots

This section includes core values of Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes by authors cited once. 

  • If you've come to help me, You are wasting your time, and mine. If you come because your liberation is linked to mine, then let's join hands and start working together

    ~  Ayesha Iman, activist
  • It is my belief that music and dance transcend gender, race, and language...

    ~  Babacar M'Baye



  • We feel the urgency and passion of the movement as it flies and falls. We are uplifted and we are drawn in to the story

    ~  Gibson Muriva, contemporary dancer and choreographer (MURIVA DANCE)
  • We write our stories with the medium of the body, unearth a beginning, middle and end through movement and infuse them with raw emotions and explosive live percussion

    ~  Lua Shayenne
  • In Dagara culture, the drum is a transportation device that carries the listener into other worlds. Only the sound of the drum has the power to make one travel in this specific way. Where the sound-ship goes, everybody goes. To refuse to drum is to refuse to travel. To forget how to drum is to forget how to feel.

    ~  Malidoma Some
  • No matter how mighty and strong a tree is, it will always dance to the tune of the wind

    ~  Okelola Olamigoke
  • Not all words spoken were created equal: Some words come from a mind that has studied, from a body that has traveled a 1000 miles, from eyes that have witnessed, from a tongue that has eloquence, from a heart that has passion and from a soul that has sincerity

    ~   Owen Alik Shahadah (scholar, filmmaker, activist)
  • “Wise people are like stars in the sky. Together they enlighten the sky and reduce the thickness of the night. One should make his/her life the path that leads to the stars. But what becomes of those who don’t succeed in becoming stars? Be at least a Firefly on Earth if you cannot become a star in the sky.

    ~   Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig (Dogon High Priest and Founder of kebtah)

This section includes core values of Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes by authors, in alphabetical orders, cited more than once. 

Afrikan Yoga

This fluid form of yoga will bring you back to your core and reconnect you with the Source.  

Afrikan Yoga is practice by Pablo Menfesawe-Imani as PIMAY (Pablo Imani Method Afrikan Yoga). Pablo Imani is an Author, Yoga Teacher, Massage Therapist, Holistic Health and Wellbeing Consultant and Balanced Health practitioner trained in Kinesiology.

Afrikan Yoga emphasize the value of body awareness in this Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes collection.

  • I Am Always Guided By Love
    I Dance Lightly On The Path To Myself
    My Beauty Changes And Increases
    As I Draw From The Limitless Source
    Of Love To Give To Others

    ~  Het-Heru Affirmation used in Afrikan Yoga 
    (Kemitic name for Goddesses Hathor / Oshun / Èzili)
  • ...The Drum is sacred. Its round form represents the universe, its beat the pulsation of the heart. The drum is a communication system design to connect humans with creation. The drum synchronises the left and right hemisphere of the brain, once the brain is synchronised, its physiology changes to a state of heightened awareness....

    ~  Afrikan Yoga


  • Fire movement develops fervour, liveliness and inspiration

     ~  Afrikan Yoga


Amel Tafsout

"The dance is... communication between the earthly and the divine" ~ Amel Tafsout | Meritah-Africa cultural revolution dance quotes"The dance is... communication between the earthly and the divine" ~ Amel Tafsout | Meritah-Africa cultural revolution dance quotes

Amel Tafsout is an international dancer and choreographer of Norh African Maghreb culture. 

  • Maghreb Dance is about contact with life and Nature, where the woman represents Nature and the man the Human being

    ~ Amel Tafsout
  • If the body is your world, then the circles in Maghreb dance define the territories of that world. The hips are your equator, guarding the most important female part of you, the source of your creativity.  You can move as a spiral journeying through the different latitudes of the body, beginning with your head and ending with your knees. 

    ~  Amel Tafsout
  • The dance is both public and personal expression, rich in symbolic dimensions that deal with universal constant in nature: planetary movements and their influence; fertility of Mother Earth; and the Communication between the Earthly and the Divine.

    ~ Amel Tafsout

Germaine Acogny

Germaine Acogny, as a reknown pioneer, expresses the everlasting ancestral bond to the land and the people spirits, through the dances of here today, yesterday and tomorrow aligned, in this Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes collection. 

Germaine Acogny, as a reknown pioneer, expresses the everlasting ancestral bond to the land and the people spirits, through the dances of here today, yesterday and tomorrow aligned, in this Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes collection.Germaine Acogny, as a reknown pioneer, expresses the everlasting ancestral bond to the land and the people spirits, through the dances of here today, yesterday and tomorrow aligned, in this Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes collection.
  • My weapon, my ferry is Dance, blessed by the ancestral gods of my people. I dance beyond the words and evils of this world in hope for my damaged Africas and in defence of my own joyous interest. May you share my hope and my joy

    ~  Germaine Acogny
  • ...Mixed race sticks to my skin without altering its color, and this mix of ingredients makes me just want to dance, to dance beyond the words and weariness. More than drawing images I want to 'face up to hope' of my various Africas and proclaim it with insight and conviction.

    ~  Germaine Acogny

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela's contribution, to this Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes collection, honors the rhythms of creativity to gain strength and maintain courage.

Nelson Mandela's contribution, to this Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes collection, honors the rhythms of creativity to gain strength and maintain courage.Nelson Mandela's contribution, to this Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes collection, honors the rhythms of creativity to gain strength and maintain courage.
"It is music and dancing that makes me at peace with the world... And at peace with myself..." | ~ Nelson Mandela (92nd Birthday, July 18, 2010)"It is music and dancing that makes me at peace with the world... And at peace with myself..."
| ~ Nelson Mandela (92nd Birthday, July 18, 2010)
  • It is music and dancing that makes me at peace with the world... 
    And at peace with myself...

    ~  Nelson Mandela
    (92nd Birthday, July 18, 2010)

  • Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community...

    ~ Nelson Mandela

  • We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right...

    ~  Nelson Mandela

Qudus Onikeku

Qudus Onikeku brings the talk, in this Meritah - African culture and traditions - dance quotes collection, on intimate growth through rendez-vous with ourselves in our dances.

  • I am a Solo Dancer! I Dance in Solitude I Dance with my solitude and I Dance Because of Solitude I Live On this Earth Without Expectation Without Disappointment For I am Attached to Nothing It Will Be Unnecessary To Bury Me For I am already Buried in My Body Along with my SOLITUDE A Solitude Peopled By Images Dream, Phantoms And Memories And of course, JOY

    ~  Qudus Onikeku (THE SOLO DANCER)
  • Dance is a place where I find refuge, it has become a comforting solace

    ~  Qudus Onikeku

Wangari Maathai

Meritah - African culture and traditions dance quotes collection is enriched with sayings from Wangari Maathai's cultural activism as wisdom in action for community resilience and sustainability. 

(More inspiring quotes on Leadership for social justice from prof. Wangari Maathai)

  • If you understand and you are disturbed, then you are moved to action. That's exactly what happened to me

    ~ Wangari Maathai
  • Culture is coded wisdom... Wisdom that has been accumulated for thousands of years and generations. Some of that wisdom is coded in our ceremonies, it is coded in our values, it is coded in our songs, in our dances, in our plays.

    ~ Wangari Maathai
  • Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development

    ~ Wangari Maathai

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