Quotes from Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I think every morning we wake up offers a new beginning, a new way of stepping into the day. I think every conversation could be a new chance.

For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.

Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.