Author: Wangari Maathai

Quotes

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

- Wangari Maathai

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

- Wangari Maathai

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

- Wangari Maathai

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.

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.

- Wangari Maathai

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