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Binyavanga Wainaina has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs,…
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I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth…
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It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would…
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I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
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There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
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Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of…
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Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated
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I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
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Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won…
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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed…
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Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
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I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased…
— Arthur Frederick Saunders
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
— Eric Hoffer
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But you held your pride like you should've held me
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So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the…
— Brandon Sanderson
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There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich
— French Proverb
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