For convenience of the reader an effort has been made to arrange these
sententious sayings under general subjects. These selected by no means
exhaust the mine of African proverbial lore but are only a few nuggets that
suggest the Negro's power to infer and generalize and to express himself in
a graphic and concise way relative to life as he observed and experienced
it.[1]

_Anger_
Anger does nobody good, but patience is the father of kindness.

_Assistance_
Not to aid one in distress is to kill him in your heart.

_Birth_
Birth does not differ from birth; as the free man was born so was
the slave.
In the beginning our Lord created all. With him there is neither
slave nor free man, but every one is free.

_Boasting_
Boasting is not courage. He who boasts much cannot do much. Much
gesticulation does not prove courage.

_Borrowing_
Borrowing is easy but the day of payment is hard.

_Chance_
He who waits for chance may wait for a year.