African Proverbs & Quotes To Improve UnderstandingUnity Consciousness #370

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(1) Animals become extinct that only survive when things are in their favor.

(2) Rest on your laurels and, soon enough, a laurel will rest on you.

(3) The lion who built fences, fenced himself in.

(4) Greater is the need of one who needs now than my future need.

(5) It is unwise to expect unity, yet agree to disagree on core values.

(6) The lion who built fences, fenced himself out.

(7) A gazelle can only learn from the lion what not to do.

(8) Graduation is more about beginning than it is about ending.

(9) If the lion learns to build fences, the gazelle will have to do more than try to jump them.

(10) Any team can be beaten on any given someday.

(11) Each person is the current physical spokesperson for their Ancestors.

(12) Karma will find you eventually somewhere in eternity.

(13) Human animals will never attempt divine things unless the divine is nurtured within them.

(14) Humankind born around the Great Lakes region [in Africa], almost on the Equator, is necessarily pigmented and Black; the Gloger Law calls for warm-blooded animals to be pigmented in a hot and humid climate. (1)

(15) The greatest tests are reserved for the strongest, not the weakest; for the parents, not the children; and for the eldest, not the youngest.

(16) Without difficulty there is no need to get better.

(17) The lion is not always successful; however, if the lion quit trying, the hyena would stop laughing but also would have nothing to scavenge.

Is a young person with an old soul, the result of poor quality control?

(1) Diop, Cheikh Anta, Civilization Or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology: Translated from the French by Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi (Chicago Review Press, 1991), p. 11.