All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
“Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.” — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I'm an African. I was brought up here; my home is here. Being an Afropolitan, I am here to stay. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
“Science is smaller than music, than the patterns of the body; the large confident world of sound and body gathers. If my mind and… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
