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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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
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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
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Diversity and inclusion are always something industries should strive for.
Halima Aden
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
Xavier Niel
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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
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens
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I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.
Charlie Kaufman
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We ain't got nothing without love.
That's all we'll have when the world is through
Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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I think I still have [commemorative coin ] somewhere. Why was this given to me? I think every child in the country must have received one [ from Queen's Silver Jubilee]. That's the last time that I recall something of an innocent, more-or-less unquestioning monarchist patriotism in Britain.
Quentin S. Crisp
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We're moving from a centralized understanding of the world to a decentralized understanding of the world.
Mike Cernovich
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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill.
Henry Taube
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There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
Binyavanga Wainaina