Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.

Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.

Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.

Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.

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.

To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.

If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn’t. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn’t.

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.

When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.