Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Professions : Writer Born : 1968 Browse All Authors Top 25 quotes by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor 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 generations skins past It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor optimist may way Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor dying home profound I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor sublime culture art I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor findings essence ideas Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors