Am Quote by Binyavanga Wainaina

“Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.”

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'

— Binyavanga Wainaina

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

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I'm an African. I was brought up here; my home is here. Being an Afropolitan, I am here to stay.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.

— 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

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated

— Binyavanga Wainaina

“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

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

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

— Binyavanga Wainaina