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Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Change Transformation Africa Things

I tried to score a few films with this composer Brian Reitzell here in L.A. We made a bunch of music we really loved, but we got fired from the film for being too weird.

Music Loved Weird Here Film Score

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

I Am Political Coward Engage Rather

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

Aneurin Barnard

Father Age Time Down Grandfather

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

Orange Juice Over Finish Sit Here

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

Problem Back Burden Irish Being

Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.

Martin Van Creveld

War Border Quiet Destruction Been

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

Science Young Science Fiction Fiction

The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other times.

Great Myself Best Me Sometimes Way

I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

Family Great Trust Support People

I'm not good at Blackberrys, cell phones, or packing.

Good Cell Phones Phones Packing Cell

It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself.

Love Great Romantic Yourself Look

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Arthur Erickson

Values Whatever Own Tourist Disease

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