"Umntu ngumntu ngabantu — a human being is a person through (other) people. (Bantu proverb)"

Bailey, Cameron. “Virtual Skin: Articulating Race in Cyberspace.” Immersed in Technology. Eds. Moser, Mary Anne and Douglas MacLeod. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996. 29-49. (via carvalhais)

…or ‘no man is an island’, or “I am because we are”*.