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“I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.”

Thinking Trying Country Seems Dies Disappear Phenomenon Offense Kenya Amnesia

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.”

Reason Silence Written Stones Hills Odd Immense Muse Silence Is Invited Delighted Gallery Kenya Indebted Procession Carver

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.”

“We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago - I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. But not only that - we absolutely need to retake the Senate. It is imperative that we take the Senate.”

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Author:Rafael Cruz

“The problems of tribal conflicts in Kenya are much older, caused by the former colonial power. A former American ambassador there once wrote about how the CIA has contributed to the divisions between Kenyans.”

Problem Conflict Former Division Cia Ambassadors Kenya

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“If you're Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, if you're in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you don't get out of your vehicle and go walking around amid the lions and the leopards. You stay in your Land Rover. You stay in your safari van, and you look out the windows or you look out the pop top at these animals. I know by experience how badly that can work out if you violate those guidelines.”

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Author:David Quammen

“I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.”

Knows Men Want Kind Made Said Home Gone Week Special Changed Limits Six My Family Speed Coming Home Lots Of Money Burned Egypt Something Special Kenya Burned Out Safari Speed Limits

Author:Sammy Hagar

“[Black-ish creator] Kenya Bariss wrote on Girlfriends. We've been friendly since then. He sent me [the pilot] and said, "I wrote it for you." But I know what that means in this industry.”

Knows Mean Said Black Industry Creator Girlfriend Friendly Pilots Kenya

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.”

Stills Fun Topics Kenya Sticky

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, "Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters." So she planted trees anyway.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Said Facts Government Wanted Millions Laughing Tree Plant Laughed They Said Kenya Schooled

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing - and that's the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people will use the cover of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It's completely unacceptable.”

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Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Of course it's very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means - one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration - is difficult.”

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Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.”

People Writing New York Kenya

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are keen to get a new political dispensation. They are keen to fight corruption and impunity, and in that sense they are leaving the political elite behind.”

People Thinking Giving Political Fighting Behinds Pages Give Me Leaving Corruption Elites Kenya Impunity

Author:Kofi Annan

“The changes I envisage and that I have promised to address within my first 90 days in office are; Dismantling the cabals of tribalism that are choking our country and resulting in runaway corruption and frustration for the people of Kenya.”

People Firsts Country Office Corruption Our Country Addresses Frustration Choke Kenya Tribalism Runaway Cabal

Author:Raila Odinga

“If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.”

Ifs Able Effects Radical Kenya Radical Change

Author:Raila Odinga

“If somebody comes up and says, "[Barack] Obama was born in Kenya," the story becomes, "Will Obama succeed in refuting this charge and then can we make these villains making the charge look like reprobates?" No examination of the allegation or examination of the issues.”

Ifs Looks Stories Born Issues Succeed Come Up Barack Villain Examination Kenya Allegations

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so I've seen and interacted with abject poverty. But I also know that because of that, poverty is not the definition of the people that live there.”

People Knows Poverty Growing Up Growing Definitions Far Away Kenya Slums

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to grow coffee you need rain, you need special kinds of soils that are found on hillsides, and that means you have to protect that land from soil erosion so you don't lose the soil. You also want to make sure that when the rains come you're going to be able to hold that water and have it go into the ground so that the streams and the rivers keep flowing and the ground is relatively humid for these plants.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the Kenyan government, so that they can produce food there. People in Kenya need food. We have people who have studied agriculture. Why is it that if we really need food, we cannot go into the delta and develop our own food?”

People Ifs Want Needs Government Land Example Produce Rivers Agriculture Kenya Lease Delta Qatar

Author:Wangari Maathai

“I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not. And perhaps the greatest change of attitude is that today, at least in Kenya, if you don't send your child to school - unless it's a matter of poverty or religion, and it is not that there no schools - then people wonder, "why the hell don't you send your children to school?" Now that's a very big jump from when I was going to school and educating girls was an exception to the rule.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“The government of Qatar, as I mentioned, has proposed to come and lease Kenya's Tana River delta in order to farm there. What I am not sure of is, has an environmental impact assessment been made to ensure that exploiting this delta for agricultural activities is the best way we can use the delta?We must be concerned about the long-term impact of agricultural activities in the delta.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“I'm sure the government of Qatar is not coming in to grow food for the people of Kenya; it's coming to grow food to sell. If it can also sell to the people of Kenya, well, then good. I think that the moves can be helpful, but I think that the history that Africa knows, as I say in my book, has been a history of exploitation.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Has Beens Book Government Moving Grows Sells Helpful Exploitation Kenya Qatar

Author:Wangari Maathai

“There are certain areas where foreign investors can help the local people to generate wealth, and improve their quality of life. Some companies, for example, Del Monte, which produces pineapples in Kenya, pay a huge amount of taxes, I am sure, to the Kenyan government, and they do create jobs for thousands of locals.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“There is no reason why a company like Monsanto, for example, that is pushing GMOs, cannot go to Kenya, partner with the university, partner with the research institutions, and try to promote - in a responsible way - advanced techniques to help farmers. But this should be done in such a way that the farmers' livelihoods are not undermined because the government is irresponsible or careless, or because it is compromised.”

“Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown money for their research institutions, for their universities, for their professors, they are very quick to say yes, and I can tell you that when Monsanto came to Kenya, they were able to be given permission to do research in one of our research institutions, and yet there was not a single law to control such research.”

I Can Bigs Government Able Law Given Poor Research Empty Institutions University Bags Professors Permission Kenya Monsanto

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”

Opportunity Leadership Power Politician Authority Greed Privilege Materialism Satisfying Improving Lives Of Others Kenya

Author:Mwai Kibaki

“Many Israelis can get to know what's really happening. I mean, you have soldiers who go and see things. It's not like France and Algiers or, I don't know, England and Kenya or Belgium and Kenya. It's in your backyard. It's much more about willingness, indecision, the inability, or exposure. There is a decision not to be exposed. People can live like five minutes away from it all.”

People Knows Mean Decision Five Minutes Happenings England Soldier France Willingness Exposed Inability Five Minutes Exposure Backyards Kenya Indecision Belgium

Author:Amira Hass

“It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.”

Impossible Kenya Migrants Nomad

Author:Richard Leakey

“African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.”

Firsts Water Hours Walks Victim Environmental Degradation Kenya Fetch Environmental Degradation Firewood

Author:Wangari Maathai

“When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.”

Needs Wells Games Change Loses Pakistan Tournaments Need A Change Kenya

Author:Shane Warne

“How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR”

Two Three Next Numbers Four England Caught Kenya Malaysia Number Three

Author:Pittacus Lore

“I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.”

School Father Grateful Moved Kenya I Am Grateful Somalia

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

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Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.”

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Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.”

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Author:Peter Diamandis

“We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.”

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Author:Alex Steffen

“The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'”

“You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend.”

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Author:Nicholas Stern

“Yesterday, President Obama prank-called a Washington radio station, calling himself 'Barry from D.C.' Then, just to mess with him, Obama called Glenn Beck's radio show as 'B. Hussein from Kenya.'”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. People in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American. That's how bad it's gotten.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.”

Ifs Born Barack Jimmy Carter Kenya

Author:Eric Alterman

“I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue.”

Different America Opportunity Belief Realizing My Own Miracle Enterprise Boundless Untrue Kenya Free Enterprise

Author:Chris Coons

“Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.”

Matter Hands Animal Forever Minutes Creation Pure Each Day Pet Entity Kenya Animal Love Licking Uncomplicated Aggravated Maasai

Book:All Pets Go To Heaven: The Spiritual Lives of the Animals We Love

Source: All Pets Go To Heaven: The Spiritual Lives of the Animals We Love

“I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the first African woman to receive this prize, I accept it on behalf of the people of Kenya and Africa, and indeed the world. I am especially mindful of women and the girl child. I hope it will encourage them to raise their voices and take more space for leadership.”

People World Firsts Children Girl Voice Space Accepting Raises Recognition Prize Honour Behalf Nobel Kenya African Women Girl Child

Author:Wangari Maathai

“We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.”

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