Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Bullies always have another target.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.
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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'
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Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.
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To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.
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Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
