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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. |
15 July, 2012
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“I have no land, no home, no refuge from my pain.” – Medea (Euripides) |
24 June, 2012
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“I met a woman, she had a mouth like yours, she knew your life, she knew your devils and your deeds.” – Joni Mitchell, Case of You |
25 March, 2012
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“You said you didn’t even know my name . . . told me might that we might as well make ours the same.” – John Legend, Quickly |
11 March, 2012
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“Elvis was a hero to most . . . Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me. Straight up racist the sucker was simple and plain (mother fuck him and John Wayne!)“ – Chuck D and Flavor Flav |
3 March 2012
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“Never be proud for what you are or the position you hold, because after a game of chess, the king & the pawns go into the same box.” – A Fante (Ghanaian) saying |
26 Jan, 2012
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“I think all African taxi-drivers, we all must have the same mother, because we look and drive the same.” – Musings from my taxi driver in Ghana. |