Believe Quote by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Download Open image “Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.” — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believe Writing
“There's a traditional Kenyan prayer: "From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth, from the laziness that is content with half-truth, from… — Joni Rodgers Copy Share Image
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… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of… — Chris Coons Copy Share Image
I'm very much a person that believes that there's something that was introduced into Kenya and Africa as we know it that has made… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“It is an aspect of Kenya I am always acutely aware of - and crave, because I don't have it all. My third language,… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are keen to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Even if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I think every morning we wake up offers a new beginning, a new way of stepping into the day. I think every conversation could… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody… — Bradley Wright-Phillips Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image