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"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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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."
"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."
"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."
"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."
"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."
"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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"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."
"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve."
"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."
"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."
"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."
"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that."
"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."
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