I kept stumbling and falling and stumbling and falling as I searched for the good. 'Why?' I asked myself. Now I believe that I was on the right path all along, particularly with the Green Belt Movement, but then others told me that I shouldn't have a career, that I shouldn't raise my voice, that women are supposed to have a master. That I needed to be someone else. Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong.

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think…

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV stat…

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.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. [2]

Like it or not, we were built tough, Because we're woman.

I am what I am I am my own special creation So come take a look Give me the hook or the ovation It's my world that I want to have a little pride in My world an…