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.

11 November, 2011

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Lions.  You know, like in front of a museum or a post office.  You know, concrete lions.  My house has lions.  Get a house with lions.”
– Prologue to Sanchez’s book.

29 October, 2011

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“Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

– Shakespeare (As You Like It) as quoted by Don King in Kinshasa, Zaire 1974.

25 September, 2011

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Ìyàwó àkófé kì í rá’hùn okó, òkèlè àkóbù kì í rá’hùn obè  (A man’s first wife never complains of neglect from the penis, the first morsel never complains of insufficient sauce)

 – a Yoruba saying