Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.”

“To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.”

“To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.”

“Some women sleep their way to the top. Most men sleep their way to the bottom.”

“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.”

“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.”

“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”

“A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.”

“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”

“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

“Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.”

“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.”

“Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.”

“The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.”

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”

“AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative.”

“It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.”

“For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.”

“For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom.”

“Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”