A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana.
“There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.”
“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.”
“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally importan...”
“We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.”
“Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves and other animals.”
“Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.”
“When someone criticizes you, give them two gifts- your smile and a compliment.”
“Always forget to complain, but never forget to appreciate and compliment.”
“Never has it been inappropriate for a girl to wear a red dress.”
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.”
“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”
“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.”
“I dont want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.”
“What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great liter...”