Author: Wangari Maathai

Quotes

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

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

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

- 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

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