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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 |
5 OCTOBER, 2013
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“A smelly person can’t smell their own stink.” – a traditional Xhosa saying |
23 September, 2013
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“I want a time machine so I can go back in time to when puns were funny.” – Reeves Goodman, my son’s friend |
25 September, 2013
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“Now you’re cooking with gas.” – One of my late Iowa grandfather’s favorite expressions |
24 March, 2013
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“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. |
16 August, 2012
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“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” |
3 August, 2012
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.“ – James Baldwin |
22 July, 2012
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“You can steal a drum, but you can’t hide and play it.” – A Ghanaian saying, from a friend who just got his house broken into and his sneakers stolen. |