A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
You don’t tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man.
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.
A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.
I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia.
Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.
Multitudes speak of their first love, seldom about their last hate.
Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.
You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.
Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.
Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.
To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.
A straight face is an ignorant man’s attempt to appear knowledgeable.
How much man likes or hates a person or a thing is dependent on how much he knows or does not know about the person or the thing.
Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.
To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.
I used to think that size does not count, until I realized that most people either find other people’s faeces more disgusting than a bird’s droppings, or they do not find the latter disgusting at all.
Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.
Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.
12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.
A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.
Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.
Never judge the deeds of a starving man while you’re on a full tummy.
For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.
Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.
When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him, they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.
The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued, another organism’s life has to be discontinued.
Eating healthy is expensive. Not eating healthy is expensive. One dents your pocket. The other dents your health.
Air freshener is man’s pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion.
Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper.
Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.
He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.
An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk.
Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.
Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.
Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.
Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.
