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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym.

Joe Taslim

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There is no worse emotion than fear.

Joe Torre

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Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

Maximillian Degenerez

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A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Robert Kiyosaki

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One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.

Jeffrey Brown

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The Undertaker's beaten me down pretty bad quite a few times.

Jeff Hardy

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I am ambitious and hungry to succeed.

Alvaro Morata

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In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.

Stephen Kinzer

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It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.

Roland Joffe

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I think I only started to speak to people in grade four.

Rupi Kaur

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The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Rush Limbaugh

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Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.

Michel Faber

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