Levi Cheruo > Levi's Quotes

“If you want to die as soon as last year, get married this very minute!”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“Love is a nonexistent myth; a precious commodity cherished by the dying and the weak in spirit”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“The desire of Kenyans is manifest. They know too well that their invincible, invisible, nameless, faceless, yet omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent rulers are condemned to serve them for life!”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“We might be anonymous, faceless, nameless and tribeless out there but our flexed muscles are felt oceans away. Why? Because we have remained steadfast in our unity. We have lived side by side as real brothers from the same loins, have we not? We might be a minority yet we control almost 90% of our economy…from There is no Country Called Kenya”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“Soon, everyone will realize, just like we have, that there has never been a country called Kenya! Instead, they will realize that all along there have been two main things: thieves and those stolen from! ”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“A modern-day Kenyan politician has deeper pockets enriched with proceeds from public till, narcotics, godfathers…. A modern-day Kenyan politician, upon election into a public office, despite being a certified illiterate, is a trusted policy maker and has the final word on key technical decisions in the country. A modern-day Kenyan politician is a seasoned slutty cheat who do not shy away from engaging in political incest with fellow birds of a feather! A modern-day Kenyan politician is a perfect embodiment of an enlightened entrepreneur who uses an ignorant electorate as a springboard to overnight riches and absolute power…. ”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“…there is no such a thing as a carefully designed program which magically guides our unpredictable lives towards some clearly defined destiny. Here and now is all we have. Now and here is our purpose, our ultimate dream, our cherished goals, our secret ambitions, our hidden desires, our jealously guarded hatred reserved for our sworn enemies, the beginning, and the end of the road, period! ”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“We are a simple creation ever eager to complicate ourselves. We are a loving animal, capable of showing so much love, who even though does not walk on all-four, is also capable, many a time, of nefarious, savage, demeaning, degrading and unfathomable acts against fellow humans. ”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“Tragedy is when one’s own faults makes them lose a treasure that had all their miserable lives been within their reach. Double tragedy is when one’s own sheer cowardice won’t just let them face those they secretly adore, love and cherish and confess their innermost convictions...of how much they had lived loving them, how much they had secretly cared, how much they were ready and willing to sacrifice and let go so they may be a part of their lives...”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“Like Beji, our country is a nation whose citizens has employed crooked means of survival, lives in the expense of others, cares the least about their compatriots, and are ever more than willing to do anything conceivable to plunge every vulnerable life into a pitch-dark abyss! It is, you will realize, a lovely den of hungry wolves whose ugly claws often extend a cold handshake to every beggar in the next turn...”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“it is a do as I say, not as I do world…besides, money is thicker than Christ! A modern day born- again Kenyan knows poverty is slavery…they all know too well that lack of money is lack of friends; if you have money at your disposal, every dog and goat will claim to be related to you...From The UglyBeautiful Tale of a Stupid, Stupid Heart”
― Levi Cheruo Cheptora

“I’ll be writing until I can’t write anymore. It’s a compulsion with me. I love writing”
― J.K. Rowling

“Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”
― Chinua Achebe

“Our country must morally re-arm. We cannot run a country where virtue is vice and vice is virtue. We cannot live in a country where the looters of yester-years assume they have undergone a Pauline conversion because they are in opposition and oppose the Government of the day. Some of our richest men and women are to be found in politics and their creed is, thou shall reap what thou hath not sown.”
― PLO Lumumba

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
― Austin Phelps