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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.'
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
- Known
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.
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- Nov 07, 2020