Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more...
Irony is a gift of the gods, the most subtle of all the modes of speech. It is an armour and a weapon; it is a philosophy and a perpetual entertainment; it is food for the hungry of wit and drink to those thirsting for laughter...
I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.
I am a diamond in the rut. A diamond to an untrained eye looks like a rock stone. So men will kick it around on the ground. It takes a man with an expert eye for fine Jewelry to notice its worth. Do not feel bad when men treat you like the little boy...
When he came home early, he was dreary. There, he'd sit by the fireplace, his worn hands gripping the newspaper a bit too tight, his eyes held to it, unseeing, towards the words, the meaningless grouping of letters on that newspaper. The fire would c...
A young man idle, an old man needy.
The poor man and the rich man do not play together.
The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today.
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all.
When death comes, the rich man has no money and the poor man no debt.
Rather be a slave to a rich man than the spouse of a poor man.
An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing.
I heard him sweeping with the broom, and then he suddenly stopped. I had obviously got his attention, and he was looking. I thought. I liked the sound of that silence. Do you know what I mean? Have you heard that silence yourself? I love that silence...
Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
A bad man talks about what he has eaten and drunk -- a good man about what he has seen and heard.
The saving man becomes the free man.
Finding The Man. Keeping The Man. Not scaring The Man, building up The Man, following The Man, soothing The Man, flattering The Man, deferring to The Man, changing your judgement for The Man, changing your decisions for The Man, polishing floors for ...
If a rich man dies, all the world is moved; if a poor man dies, nobody knows it.
If a rich man steals it is a mistake; if a poor man makes a mistake he has stolen.
In a fight the rich man tries to save his face, the poor man his coat.
