Hannington Mumo Quotes

Life is for living, not for taking care of for no mortal can guarantee its continuity.

It's scary how some unambitious men choose a life of comfortable waiting for death while manlier swines shake the pillars of the space.

The problem with being a gifted writer in Kenya is that you have many half-schooled editors who have no taste for literary works, and will hence have problems having your works published. I don't write to meet the wizened expectations of a Moi University graduate in Information Science, folks who cannot recall anything worth reading they've ever read. An editor should be a literary enthusiast, if not a writer themselves.

Ignorance, just like genius, is a powerful thing - it can level mountains!

It is naked folly to compete with giants before you have even wrestled squirrels.

The expansiveness of one's fortunes means little to their happiness.The decision to be a happy person is the greatest determination in the life of man here on earth.

The things African editors publish as poetry are commonplace disjointed prosaic sentences that have no poetic distinction. How a self-confessed lifelong metrophobe becomes a poetry editor at some godforsaken publishing house in the city is a miracle possible only in Africa. God have mercy upon our barren literary wombs!

Calling a dog a lion does not give him the mane.

The poet writes not to be lauded but to achieve something that they are not even themselves sure of. Perhaps that is their only reward.

And you can never learn how to swim by watching others do it - you plunge into the waters!