Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

Binyavanga Wainaina

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• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Confidence
  • Better
  • Thanks

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

  

  Jack Welch
  • Country
  • Years
  • Said

• I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • World
  • Think
  • Childhood

• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • You
  • Risk
  • Director

• People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Music
  • Know
  • Football

• I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• Diversity and inclusion are always something industries should strive for.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Always
  • Diversity
  • Inclusion

• France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Broken
  • Social

• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Night
  • Black
  • Party

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • True
  • Soul
  • Calm

• While I'm interested in philosophy, I find all the different theories out there somewhat difficult to get a firm grip on. Movies and novels, on the other hand, are easy to understand. So what I like to do is use pop cultural ephemera of all kinds as tools to help me try to understand philosophy.

  

  Douglas Lain
  • Different
  • Help
  • Hand

• I have always loved fashion and feel it's another way to express my creativity. It's art and beauty combined.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Creativity

• I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • World
  • Country
  • Black