“ But when you make love, the dead stay close, fill the bed, lie along the bodies in tiers, sandwiching all their lives with yours. Jonis Agee
“ Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb… Kamand Kojouri
“ The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ I have outlived a few of the kids that I grew up with in Knowsley Village, Liverpool, UK. Two dropped dead at eighteen years of age from heart attacks! They lived across the road from each other and p… Steven Magee
“ A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
