Wangũi

“But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“If we want to turn Africa into a new Europe ... then let us leave the destiny of our countries to Europeans. They will know how to do it better than the most gifted among us.’25”
― Ngugi wa Thiong'o, In the Name of the Mother: Reflections on Writers and Empire

“This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Being is one thing; becoming aware of it is a point of arrival by an awakened consciousness and this involves a journey.”
― Ngugi wa Thiong'o, In the Name of the Mother: Reflections on Writers and Empire