It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor More Quotes by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor More Quotes From 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 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