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

You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

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.

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

The little grassroots people can change this world.