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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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