Word: proverbes
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...packed with his resonant, staccato rapping and poignant subject matter. Letter 2 My Unborn (Shakur left no children), eerie in its prescience about dying childless, is the sort of work that will nourish his mystique. Says poet Nikki Giovanni, who has studied Shakur extensively: "There's an old Nigerian proverb: You're not dead until you're forgotten." By that measure, Tupac lives...
...Gone With the Wind from a black point of view b) a Chinese proverb about flatulence c) the next America's Cup loser's excuse d) fourth at the Belmont...
...that my brand didn't merely desensitize: it burned like Ben Gay. This made me do a very odd dance around the bedroom, at which point my girlfriend, the sensible one, decided it was time to call the experiments off. I proposed durians from Southeast Asia - remembering the Malaysian proverb, "When the durians come down, the saris go up" - but she had a better idea: champagne and oysters. They may be no more effective than Asia's aphrodisiacs, but at least they don't remove any layers of skin as I fight my hundred - O.K., one or two - battles...
...before the green flag on Sunday. But, as she had for seven years to the day, she had gone through the Scripture and picked out an appropriate message for Dale to take with him on the road. Since race day was the 18th, she picked the 18th Proverb, and settled on verse 10: "The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe." Stevie handed him the note. He read it, kissed her on the cheek and headed...
...ndzeye pa enum yi a, na eye barima (Gather the five virtues, then you are a man). --Fante tribal proverb...