Top 22 Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
#1. There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
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#3. I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.'
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#4. I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.
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#5. In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'
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#6. I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
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#7. It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.
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#8. Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.
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#10. Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
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#11. I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
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#12. Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
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#13. All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
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#15. I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
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#16. There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.
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#17. I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
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#18. Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.
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#20. People reach an age ... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
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#21. We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too ... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
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