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[We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners. -- Olivia Wilde
Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago. -- David Coleman
I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago. -- Tom Morello
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic. -- Dayo Okeniyi
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either. -- Giles Foden
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. -- Wangari Maathai
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement. -- Tom Morello
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda. -- Yoweri Museveni
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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. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior. -- Newt Gingrich
The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them. -- Robert Sternberg
I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election. -- Julian Assange
I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion. -- David Rudisha
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.' -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence these came from Kansas, not Kenya. -- Ilana Mercer
AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police. -- David Bennun

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