« All Went Wrong Quotes
·
Binyavanga Wainaina's Page
Went Wrong Quotes by Binyavanga Wainaina
1 Went Wrong quote by Binyavanga Wainaina
More Quotes by Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs,…
-
I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth…
-
It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would…
-
I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
-
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
-
Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of…
-
Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated
-
I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
-
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won…
-
When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed…
-
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
-
I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
See all 16 quotes by Binyavanga Wainaina »
More Went Wrong Quotes
Popular Went Wrong quotes from across the collection:
-
Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom…
— Maya Angelou
-
Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of…
— Gabourey Sidibe
-
We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong,
— Mike Krzyzewski
-
Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out…
— Sean Covey
-
Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.
— Paula White
-
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
— Grace Hopper
-
Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes…
— Jeffrey Carver
-
Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.
— Jacob Zuma
-
No one comes unless they're drawn by the voice of desire that leads em along, to the redemption of what went wrong…
— Josh Garrels
-
The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if…
— Nas
-
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it…
— Lewis H. Lapham
-
The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the…
— Unknown Author
See all Went Wrong Quotes »
Browse Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes by Category