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Mio Seanachaidh Jan 2017
Lack of money is lack of friends; if you have money at your disposal, every dog and goat will claim to be related to you. ~ Yoruba
War has no eyes ~ Swahili saying
There can be no peace without understanding. ~Senegalese proverb
A leader who does not take advice is not a leader. ~ Kenyan proverb
If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness. ~Nigerian Proverb
Unity is strength, division is weakness. ~ Swahili proverb
Wisdom does not come overnight. ~ Somali proverb
Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean proverb
Home affairs are not talked about on the public square. ~ African proverb
Show me your friend and I will show you your character. ~ African proverb
Make some money but don’t let money make you. ~ Tanzania
When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised. - African proverb
A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning. ~Kenyan proverb
Traveling is learning. ~Kenyan Proverb
What you learn is what you die with. ~ African proverb
He who is destined for power does not have to fight for it. ~ Ugandan proverb
It takes a village to raise a child. ~ African proverb
Poverty is slavery. ~Somalia
The wealth which enslaves the owner isn’t wealth. ~ Yoruba
Much wealth brings many enemies. – Swahili
You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty. ~Congolese Proverb
A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character. ~Congolese Proverb
Show me your friend and I will show you your character. ~ African proverb
A close friend can become a close enemy.~ African proverb
Daily life quotes
ARTICHOKES are very nice roasted with pine nuts

Who likes BANANA cream pie?

They say that eating CARROTS improves your eye sight

Along the river Nile there are many DATE palms

ELDERBERRIES make a flavorsome wine

Piths from a FIG can easily get stuck between your teeth

Nape tape and shape all rhyme with GRAPE

HORSERADISH has a hot tangy taste

ICE-PLANT is a much used vegetable in Chinese cookery

The oil extract from JUNIPER BERRIES produces quine

My sister likes KALE steamed with lemon rind

It is so nice to munch on a LETTUCE leaf

MANDARINS are presently plentiful at the green grocer's

NEEPS can be mashed or left whole

On a hot summer day chilled ORANGE juice goes down well

Has anyone got a good PUMPKIN scone recipe?

Lashings of QUINCE jam were spread on my toast

The lady next door grows RHUBARB

SPINACH gave Popeye much strength

Smothering sausages in TOMATO sauce is sensational

UGLI is a member of the citrus family

In New Orleans you'll find fresh VELVET BEANS

WATERCRESS salad is so easy to prepare

XIGUA is a type of WATERMELON

YAMS are a staple of the New Guinean diet

ZUCCHINI bread is delicious fair
itoro Mar 2018
Unapologetically Black

I am black, what does that mean
It's supposed to mean that
That everywhere I go I am seen
It means that the sun and I have the best of relationships
That of melanin and honey I drip
It means that every step I take is magical
So beautiful, its biblical
My body, a pulchritudinous sculpture
In my roots, circulating the richest of cultures
I make my own light
And it's so so bright, such a beautiful sight
My cloud-like tresses with the most diverse of personalities
From wavy, to curly, to, coily, to *****
Everyone who is not me can only envy
But instead,it means that
It means that everywhere I go I am seen
It means that people don't have to think too much
Immediately I am judged
Because of the colour of my skin
I am treated like I come from the bin
You see me wearing a hoodie
You immediately think to **** me is your duty
Because I’m African
You treat me like I ain’t human
But I’m so much more than that
Now, I’m going to try to talk to you and make an impact
Don’t you realize, that the fabric of our society is being torn up by racism
We’re destroying and attacking ourselves like it's cannibalism
Don’t you realize that you're not worried about me
But instead my place in the human race
Don’t you realize that you are fed half truths
In the history books
I'm more than your stereotypes of being loud and obnoxious
You all think the same way it’s like you don’t even have an option
You focus on my colour
And don’t realise that the cops killing us are getting dollars
Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times when trying to enter his apartment
Think about it, he never got to do all the things of which he dreamt
This Guinean immigrant came to the country supposedly with streets paved with gold, only to fall to the ground, ****** and grey
It's not a big deal you say
Well Sean Bell was shot on his way home to his soon to be wife on the day of his marriage

50 BULLETS

No reason stated
Is this really what we’re going to encourage
Aiyana Stanley was only seven when she was shot in her sleep while her house was being bombed
Unacceptable it is beyond
Today I walk on your lands fearing our lives, my head the ground
I wonder if my heart ever feel sound
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired
I choose not to stand around and watch the hate
I know that I was not made for this fate.
I’m tired of the continuous *******,
Well **** sorry I didn't realise i wasn’t allowed to be black in public.
My skin is not a burden, it’s a blessing with a touch love,
Smiling wide, head high, graceful like a dove.
In the future we stand, sit back and relax
So I puff up my ‘fro and turn my ****** music on,
Because whatever you say or do I will not crack
I will always stay unapologetically black.
this is a collab poem i made with @lorenzyyy_
i do not claim all rights. i give half to miss. lorenzy.
Johnny Noiπ Jan 2019
Strain and promote sales.  To be able to fight,
and see that Guinean and his mother,
and Superman, Superman did not understand
Mary's house, and did not fear them;
Because they do not have to face an emergency,
and it is better to know smiles, daughter Isasaki,
a smile is strong and brave, perhaps horse history
and the remaining mask is 100 to 100
in the brackets to cure fever. Caves-up services,
it's not very well known that it can not imagine
the price of a public toilet outside the brainbox or drunk in a grave;
First of all, in this world, there are few words,
other participants of the vacuum can be thrown
on the road on Manic'oricory Nadine Squillies V.
The cause of the fire in the brain is spoiled,
the brain receives great. Laughter, laughter,
tears and tears, paleontrops, pink waters often
have cold air, but more seriously.                 It is easy to remove God is God.
|This is a tour. There was gold and silver there.
Great dark blue. Between black and white;
So, the sound starts quickly after saving health.
500 meters deep, which he did: it is not hell,
and its end is at the end of life, and because they are unity,
there exists among men that we are the only father of the girls. . .
Yashi Gudgavadji Tirigumi Tirigumi Benfleet Beat.
We are encouraged "and (x5, 5),                     which contains the most of us:
Your name is MelissaDek, who said:"
Do not believe in God
"(Luke 5: Gonan Chose Zora
Leslie Guanty UK Gate web pages;
UK Mochinas Diokchi Chori
But Sawochi is a bug, Madiho Atto Tower,
Tis wariwali, Tiger Hatty thath Death
"Heat in 1 code, not a Mesak Sasi,
Yin Fanu will be back together, & will not attack again,
on Aurelius network  Do not e another attack,
Zhang also yannimi anamari's MK Ed. Audi,
girl tekakai rasimama Che requested
Mae Cora Corey betinisi kosasa pranamaiya
rila meat iraki yama vui taita 'eka tavitava ||
Ali said 'yemavi limned building, gray'
iracici Yi,  General cinema TIC Occam's inanimate
                        mam iridescent |                  musical mats
South Benfleet is a town in the Castle Point district of Essex, 30 miles east of London. The Benfleet SS7 post town includes South Benfleet, Thundersley, New Thundersley and Hadleigh.
c rogan Jun 2020
in the mornings sarah bikes
on a meadow trail
sunrise saturated fields
gold amber and rose
l’heure d’or, la lavande dans l’air

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in Guinean sun-kissed grass
seasoned by ages
of endless constellations
falls like dusty snow
in a black coffee heaven

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