Binyavanga Quotes
Collection of top 31 famous quotes about Binyavanga
Binyavanga Quotes & Sayings
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Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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
The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.
— Charles Krauthammer
I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.
— Shawn Mendes
I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
If she asks, just tell her I'm yours.
— Tabatha Vargo
I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
People reach an age ... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
He had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied.
— Gillian Flynn
Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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
I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.
— Brandy Norwood
I don't care about the facts, Domino, I care about how I feel. How I feel will change, I want to remember that.
— Jeanette Winterson
I love playing with words and texture.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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
I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
— Laura Kightlinger
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'
— Binyavanga Wainaina
Just like you can't punish anyone without punishing yourself, you can't love anyone without loving yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
