BiographyType: Social critic, philosopher Born: 0 Died: Mokokoma Mokhonoana is a philosopher, a social critic, a satirist, an aphorist, an essayist, a cartoonist, a graphic designer, and an iconoclast. I was born, bred, and is based, within the borders of some figment called South Africa - Mokokoma Mokhonoana. |
Some couples are married because they fell in love. Some are married because the woman fell pregnant.
The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding.
Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.
It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private.
To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is.
Reality is what people who lack vision see.
Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.
Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.
A realist is a slave to reality.
If human beings weren’t ‘dumbable’ enough to be made soldiers, war would be nothing but an exchange of swear words between a handful of individuals.
You cannot really get peace. You can only get rid of war.
An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.
As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.
A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry.
If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.
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