Whenever I help out somewhere and the opportunity presents itself I’ll mention something like “Well - it takes a village. And in the original meaning of the saying where they mean the neighbors - not big government.”
Another African saying inspired the business book
Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt By Harvey Mackay (1996).
Original was “Beware of the naked man who offers you clothes” an African proverb used to call out hypocrites.
Hillary’s was culturally appropriated from an African proverb from the Nigerian Igbo culture, “Oran a azu nwa”.
Said to mean an entire community of people must interact with children for those children to grow in a safe and healthy environment.
A large chair does not make a king.
A happy man marries the girl he loves but a happier man loves the girl he marries.
He who eats another man’s food will have his own food eaten by others.
The youth walks faster but the elderly know the road.
A patient man will eat ripe fruit.
Two drops of water do not make a pool.
Money can’t talk but it can make lies look true.