Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.
Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.
Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.
I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.'
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, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.
I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
I love playing with words and texture.
I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
I'm an African. I was brought up here; my home is here. Being an Afropolitan, I am here to stay.
I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'
I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'
It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
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.
People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
The time we are living in is the greatest opportunity to be queer, and it is almost the most dangerous time because everything is up for grabs.
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