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Sotigui Kouyaté

Burkinabé actor and football player (1936-2010).

Born July 19th, 1936 in Bamako. [ref]

Died April 17th, 2010 at 73 years old in Paris (lung disease). [ref]

Occupations
actor, association football player, film actor, musician

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche