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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

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below. — John Gardner

What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny. — Wayne Muller

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

I like to travel by myself. — Carly Rae Jepsen

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation. — Binyavanga Wainaina

It's rewarding to know that a song is doing more than just helping someone to have a nice day: it's actually leaving a deposit in their lives. — Natalie Grant

I love to bake. I like to bake with wheat and try not to eat sugar, so I use applesauce instead, which probably sounds really gross. — Brenda Song

People reach an age ... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours. — Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood. — Binyavanga Wainaina

The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious. — David Ignatius

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five. — Binyavanga Wainaina

Everything does fall. It must be gravity. — Dan Brown

I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general. — Binyavanga Wainaina

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

It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die — Thomas Page McBee

Here's Fernando, Sarah said in a tone suggesting that deliverance had come at last. — Deborah Harkness

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

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

A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones. — P. J. O'Rourke

He was not, by the standard definitions, a bad man; in the same way a plague-bearing rat is not, from a dispassionate point of view, a bad animal. — Terry Pratchett

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit. — Binyavanga Wainaina

Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get? — Sue Monk Kidd

I love playing with words and texture. — Binyavanga Wainaina