yoruba version:

little by little we eat the head of the rat

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"I've got earth blood, filled up with the Geechees long gone, and the sea."
--Indigo
Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.
--Shange