Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
Binyavanga Wainaina
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The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
Binyavanga Wainaina
