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It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.
— Abhijit Naskar
It's the kind of storm that only happens on the high veld, the thunder loud and rapid. Angle doesn't speak. I need her to. Maybe she is counting the people who have died since we first met.
— Arushi Raina
It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.
— Felix Okoye
Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Kukurukuuu,’ our big rooster crowed as usual, and it nearly put me off my sleep. My eyes were neither open nor close. In trying to go back to sleep I rolled to both sides on my small wooden bed, covered with a mat. The room was partially dark and warm, sleepless rats busy under my bed in search of food.
— Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Look at the truth from how it stands, not where it comes from. The truth is still the truth no matter whether it is spoken by an Indian, an American, a Chinese, a European, an African or an Australian!
— Israelmore Ayivor
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