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Grace Ogot

  • When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage.

  • Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.

    • Grace Ogot,
    • "Unwinding Thread," The Rain Came ()
  • Death knocks at your door; and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.

  • I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.

    • Grace Ogot,
    • in Charles R. Larson, ed., Under African Skies ()

Grace Ogot, Kenyan writer

(1934)

Full name: Grace Akinyi Ogot.