Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.
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I feel like I go through an awkward phase almost every day.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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I always take my make-up off before bed.
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Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.
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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
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'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
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I spend time doing cardio because it makes me feel good.
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When we train men for war, we lose some part of every man we train - even if we win the war. When we train men to be better nurturers, even men who fail the course will have won. And so will every child they ever meet. Training men to love is a nation’s best investment.
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Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
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Margaret Sanger: Well I suppose a subject like that is really so personal that it is entirely up to the parents to decide, but from my view, I believe there should be no more babies in starving countries for the next ten years.
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
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Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.
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I never thought I'd wear Birkenstocks, but here I am! Having said that, I'm pretty sure I'd never wear Crocs.
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My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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Of all our sunny world I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself. There I should sit with a letter at my breast, a single small letter. That is what my dream looks like.
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I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
