William Kamkwamba said this quote

Although Geoffrey, Gilbert and I grew up in this small place in Africa, we did many of the same things children do all over the world, only with slightly different materials. And talking with friends I've met from America and Europe, I now know this is true. Children everywhere have similar ways of entertaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.

~ William Kamkwamba

It was common for my father to sit my sisters down and tell them things like, I saw a girl working in the bank in town, and she was a girl just like you. My parents had never completed primary school. They couldn't speak English or even read that well. My parents only knew the language of numbers, buying and selling, but they wanted more for their kids. That's why my father had scraped the money together and kept Annie in school, despite the famine and other troubles.

~ William Kamkwamba

Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!

~ William Kamkwamba

I didn't have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed the nail back on the coals until it became red hot, then used it to bore holes into both sets of plastic blades.

~ William Kamkwamba