Top 28 Binyavanga Quotes
#1. I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#2. The light in his eyes was like the sun rising. My knees trembled and my heart quaked. It was powerful and beautiful and perfect.
Kylie Scott
#4. 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.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#5. People reach an age ... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#6. We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
#8. Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#9. I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#10. 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.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#12. Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
Loren Eiseley
#13. All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#14. Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#15. I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#16. 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.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#18. Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#19. 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.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#20. And I rose up, and knew that I was tired, and continued my journey
Edward Thomas
#21. I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#22. What have I done to make you hate me so much?"
He rolled his eyes again. "I don't hate you. I nothing you
Catherine Doyle
#23. 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?'
Binyavanga Wainaina
#24. Yes, of course you'll get back to Narnia again some day. Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#25. 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.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#26. 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.'
Binyavanga Wainaina
#28. There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
Binyavanga Wainaina
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