Top 29 Wainaina Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#4. People reach an age ... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#6. Do not pass by the oasis without stopping to drink.
Otto Gross
#7. 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
#8. I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#9. 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
#11. All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#12. Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#13. I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#14. I think that I'd like to try to be a superwoman and have kids and work, so we'll see if I can actually accomplish that.
Brooklyn Decker
#15. 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
#17. Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#18. 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
#19. I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!
Iggy Azalea
#20. I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#21. 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
#22. The unbelieving world should see our testimony lived out daily because it just may point them to the Savior.
Billy Graham
#23. 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
#24. 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
#26. He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
Jeremy Taylor
#27. I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point ... ?
Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked.
Expecto Patronum!
The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.
J.K. Rowling
#28. Great ladies ... are like the best sauces
it is better not to know how they are made.
Octave Mirbeau
#29. There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
Binyavanga Wainaina
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