“Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.”

Leave your praises for someone else.

The sweet potato does not say how sweet he is.

My success should not be bestowed onto me alone, as it was not individual success but success of a collective.

A canoe which we are all in with no exception.

With red and black the work will be complete.

Marry a man with calloused hands.

It is the octopus who says sitting is working.

Don’t die like a octopus, die like a hammerhead shark.

The leader at the front and the workers behind the scenes.

When one house dies, a second lives.

He who stands lives; he who sits perishes.

For a woman and land, men perish.

To rest on human support is unreliable, to rest on the earth is sure.

It would be better to let others praise.

When one chief disappears another is ready to appear. No one is indispensable.

Early arrivals have the pick.