“‘The problem is all inside your head’ she said to me, ‘The answer is easy if you take it logically, I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free.'” — Paul Simon – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
“A baboon can’t see his own forehead, he can only see the forehead of another” – a siSwati saying which means you can’t see your own mistakes, only those of others
“U nga dlayi nyoka u yi ndzuluta, ta micele ta ku vona” (Do not kill a snake a swing it, the ones inside the hole are watching you) – a traditional Tsonga saying
“A dog has four feet, but chooses one road. A woman has only two legs, but finds herself running down ten roads at once.”
– A perhaps sexist Congolese saying about fly women chasing men.
“They say everything can be replaced, they say every distance is not near. So I remember every face, of every man who put me here.”
– Nina Simone, “I Shall be Released”