| Adinkra | English |
| Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. | |
| Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. | |
| It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle, when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. | |
| – African proverb |
