As the saying goes, the unexamined life is not worth-living. - Chinua Achebe

When a handshake goes beyond the elbow we know it has turned to another thing.

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

The man was a complete nonentity until we crowned him, and now he carries on as though he had been nothing else all his life. It’s the same with Court Clerks and even messengers. They all manage to turn themselves into little tyrants over their own people. It seems to be a trait in the character of the negro