Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

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

Binyavanga Wainaina

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: kenyan
  • Birth: January 18, 1971

Topics

ConfidenceDiversityTalentWorld

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

Jim Hightower

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I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

John Malkovich

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I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early. They're certainly the best for visual stuff and film-directing.

Andy Serkis

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When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.

Meredith Ostrom

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I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Amy Heckerling

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I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

Steven Wright

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I think when you've been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn't seem very powerful.

Steve Largent

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I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

Tommy Chong

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At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them.

Monica Seles

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While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

Jason Calacanis

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Many entrepreneurs embrace profit-making and charitable purposes. Companies such as shoes seller Toms and eyeglass firm Warby Parker sell products at a profit with a pledge to devote part of their earnings to the needy. The number of for-profit businesses with a built-in charitable dimension has proliferated.

Josh Hawley

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