Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BookPictureNeverPrizeYourCover

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson

DifferenceExtraordinaryLittleExtra

An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility - along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure - would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.

Joe Kaeser

FutureTechnologyEnergyPushSpeed

I'm a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.

Joanna Cassidy

MotherChildrenLionProtecting

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

Jessie James Decker

I AmMeanBeingGoingSouthernJust

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.

Andre Rieu

BusyAlwaysRollingBeatlesIdol

The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

Steven Pinker

PushKindReasonUnitedBecause

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

Tom Hanks

YouPriceKnowKindWillMatter

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.

Montel Williams

MotivationalLifeMyselfMountain

Many of us forget who we were before we became cricketers. I remember how hard I tried to get an autograph when I was young.

Mohammad Azharuddin

RememberYoungForgetHardAutograph

I like to think of myself as a true artist.

Luke James

MyselfThinkArtistTrueLike

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

Jay Baruchel

GoodSportsConflictListeningThink

Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.

Jordan Peele

PeopleI CanDeadSeeLittleWell

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