It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.
“Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.”
“When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.”