Mwenda Quotes & Sayings

When I look back on my childhood, my earliest memories seem like artifacts from a long-lost civilization: half-understood fragments behind museum glass. — Matthew Flaming

The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade. — Andrew Mwenda

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered. — Fred Durst

That's how religions and histories make their way into the world, not through battles and conquests, but through poems and kennings and songs, passed through generations and written down by scholars and scribes ...
After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith, start a war, change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster, topple walls, scale mountains
Hey, a story can even raise the dead. And that's why the King of Stories ended up being King of the gods, because writing history and making history are only the breadth of a page apart. — Joanne Harris

God is either everything, or He is nothing. — Bill W.

The Sword the burning decieved rising the science fiction the betrayed the spy the souls — Moira Young

Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role. — Andrew Mwenda

The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought. — Dan Quayle

We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited by imperialists not only by people with white skin, because we do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men's skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people. — Amilcar Cabral

The fundamental mistake I had always made ... was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. (pg. 199) — John Green

I have to keep testing myself. — Eartha Kitt

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by. — Emma Donoghue