Quotes by kenyan authors

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. Mwai Kibaki
Leadership Better Opportunity Greed Others Privilege Personal Satisfy Lives
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. Wangari Maathai
You Water Plant Tree Dig Until Make Talking Survive Done Just Hole Thing
Every human being has a bit of gangster in him. Binyavanga Wainaina
Human Being Every Bit Him Human Being Gangster
I believe in the power of ideas. I believe in the power of sharing knowledge. Ory Okolloh
Knowledge Power Believe Sharing Ideas
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all. Wangari Maathai
Generation World Benefits Conserve Our Bequeath Ourselves Environment Owe Children Sustainable Next Next Generation
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. Wangari Maathai
Little Things Will Trees Citizens Make Difference Little Little Thing Planting Thing Things
My works tends to be erotic. Wangechi Mutu
Tends Works
The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold. David Rudisha
Weather Big Few Cold Run Very Role Races Raining Plays
When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition. Wangari Maathai
You Management Competition Valuable Think Local Resources Those Degraded Distribution Scarce Over Global Very Going Often Whether Conflicts Regional
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria. Binyavanga Wainaina
Confidence World Pride Black Diversity Country No Country Talent Like Nigeria
I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it. Edi Gathegi
Love Travel Would Adventurer New Like Sort Am New Places Get Often Places Explore
We must unite to build a safe, new Kenya. Mwai Kibaki
Build Must New Safe Unite Kenya
For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. Wangari Maathai
Me Problem Overcome Cause Problems Trees Symptoms Once Ourselves Would Would-Be Able Tendency Major Beyond Look Causes Often Move Just Whereas Root Planting Reasons
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting. Wangari Maathai
Angry Me Culture Country Trees Everyone General No-One Because Makes Cut Cutting Planting
We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment. Wangari Maathai
Our Destroy Promote Environment Development Does Need
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. Wangari Maathai
Environmental Today Relationship Democracy Peace Rights Conflict Few Human Rights Resources See Seem Environment Almost Between Obvious Decades May Human Connection
I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative. Wangechi Mutu
You Looking Think Distance Nutty Intricate Obscene Idea Come Know Always Up Provocative Close Gets Loved
Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical. Wangechi Mutu
Beautiful You Anxiety Radical Intuitively Something Instinctively Beautiful Things Happen Act Moment Things
I want to stay for a long time and leave a mark so the young generation can aspire to be at the top like me. I love the sport, and that’s what drives me. Eliud Kipchoge
Love Time Me Generation Long Long Time Young Mark Top I Love Stay Drives Like Sport Leave Want Aspire
Athletics is not so much about the legs. It’s about the heart and mind. Eliud Kipchoge
Heart Mind Athletics About Legs Much
If you have that belief - pure belief in your heart - that you want to be successful then you can talk to your mind and your mind will control you to be successful. Eliud Kipchoge
You Heart Mind Will Pure Control Talk Want Then Successful Your Belief
We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina. Binyavanga Wainaina
Good People Father First Too Ways Brothers Brothers And Sisters Adopted Adopting Colonial Had Name Naming Also Schools Were Mixed Western Up Sisters Grandfather Produce Show Christians
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize. Binyavanga Wainaina
Book Picture Unless Never Nobel Nobel Prize Well-Adjusted Cover Won Prize African Your
In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?' Binyavanga Wainaina
Remember Sister Thinking Everyone Say Tell Would Kindergarten Easy Finding Had Put She Catholic Box Irish Irish Catholic Crayons Us Should Why
I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.' Binyavanga Wainaina
Free Free Press Situation Changed Press Follow Excited Longer Footsteps Am Leaving Quite
I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five. Binyavanga Wainaina
Honestly Since Known Am Five Quite Swear Homosexual
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