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Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Conversation Wrong New Want Out

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.

Home Together Man Parents Old Man

CNN is not a television network that has a website. CNN is a full-fledged media company.

Media Website Television Company CNN

I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else.

Stephen Rodrick

Month Brains Much Else Arrive Dad

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

Animals Want More Up Concentration

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.

President Military Responsible Single

I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.

Life Trust Value Forward I Can Know

Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Time Medicine Find Know Everyone

We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.

Home Hope Value End Questions You

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

Government America Worry You Party

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

Peace Me Doubt Historical Take Away

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

Child Disappointment Ambition Never

In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.

Song Believe Know Want Old Pretend

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