2 Quotes Tagged: kenya

Sort by Popularity
Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walking along, through whichever door opens. I have been on a journey and this journey has never stopped. When the journey is acknowledged and sustained by those I work with, they are a source of inspiration, energy and encouragement. They are the reasons I kept walking, and will keep walking, as long as my knees hold out.
Wangari Muta Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (1940–2011)
humanity nobel-peace-prize inspirational motherhood feminism womens-rights environmental-conservation human-rights kenya post-colonialism patriotism
Find Similar
Why the Kikuyu, who personally have so little fear of death, should be so terrified to touch a corpse, while the white people, who are afraid to die, handle the dead easily, I do not know. Here once more you feel their reality to be different from our realities.
Karen Blixen, Danish writer
This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references
white-people death cultures reality danish-writer kikuyu out-of-africa immigrant kenya
Find Similar