All Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
- International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP… African
- 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 day).… Cheap
- It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the… Agent
- I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five. Five
- There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria. Black
- Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London. Confident
- Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated Africa
- I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general. Africa
- 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. Adjusted
- When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under… Africa
- Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane. Africa
- I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens. Accountable
- 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,… Ability
- Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe. Breathe
- Every human being has a bit of gangster in him. Bit
- I love playing with words and texture. Love