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“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen |
7 December, 2013
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“My mother was a kitchen girl, my father was a garden boy, that’s why I’m a communist, I’m a communist, a communist.” — a popular South Africa song being sung outside Mandela’s home as crowds held vigil just after his passing. |
30 November, 2013
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“The ox plowing the field is the one that gets whipped (rather than the ox just sitting in the field doing nothing.)” — Rough translation of a Sepedi saying, told to me on the occasion of my leaving my job. |
24 November, 2013
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“Every other Nigerian has a small dagger in his pocket, hoping to draw blood Get your own dagger! Be on your guard, and may the Lord be with you.” — Peter Enahoro (AKA Peter Pan) from “How to be a Nigerian” |
16 November, 2013
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on” – Winston Churchill |
9 November, 2013
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“‘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 |
2 November, 2013
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“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 |
26 October, 2013
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“Trouble, oh trouble set me free. I have seen your face and it’s too much, too much for me.” – Cat Stevens
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19 October, 2013
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“I had your baby in silence, I never spoke of the violence” – Freshly Ground
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12 October, 2013
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“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 |