“...therefore I become restless too. Every possible change terrifies me. I want things the way they are now. Changes brings unrest to my life”

“Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.”

“All my life is changing every day in every possible way.”

“If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.”

“Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.”

“with me,it is 'better never than late”

“I have been praying, too, for the first time in my life. That parson, Tugwell, he helped me see - not the error of my ways, for I knew them all to well already - but what was wanting in me. I am far from perfect, I know, but I am changed and changing still”