178 quotes found
“Then I saw his kind eyes, a comfort I desired. Then I saw his height, a knight I needed by my side. Then I saw his body, a man I surrendered to.”
“To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.”
“I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.”
“My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.”
“The joy of comradeship in this foreign land has been killed by silence and overprotection of personal space. I miss the chaos around me for it makes me realise that I am amidst life and alive.”
“My lips swelled with red freshness, my chest heaved proudly with a pair of pointed African drums, my face tempted with its sweetness like Kilimanjaro waters and my height spoke a language only a Ma...”
“Right now in this world, a child is dying from an ailment because its family cannot afford to buy charcoal for boiling water.Right now in this world, a girl is striving to find firewood from trees ...”
“May the economic discrimination you impose on your own people bloat your mind. That polluted rubbish occupyingyour mind-set needs to be swept clean. May the disgusted look you impose on those you j...”
“Everyone these days is concerned so much with privacy and forgets the value of human touch. We still need each other but are scared of how it might sound or appear to the other.”
“Have you ever entered a kitchen to find a woman, her legs crossed while the rest of her body is dressed in colourful khanga, smiling at you while her hands are making a melodious song with a coconu...”
“May you grow to be a fearless and proud accepting-self human.”
“You will experience a lot of imaginings as usually is for humans although we tend to pretend that all our thoughts are septic and moral. Feelcomfortable with your thoughts. Trust me dear child, no ...”
“At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.”
“If a lion can growl, why shouldnt a man cry?”
“A foolish mind would not raise an eyebrow when things are done diff erently in a foreign culture. An educated mind would try to understand the meaning of it all.”
“I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.”
“One should use well a mouth for someone will remember your words and the manner they were spoken. One should pose well in a body for someone will remember your image and how you carried it. One sho...”
“The moment of honouring our humanity is now.”
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books. I tramp a perpetual journey All goes onward and outward.... ...”
“I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.”
