1 “Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.”
2 “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. ”
3 “Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.”
4 “People reach an age… where somebody else’s platform is no longer yours.”
5 “All people have dignity. There’s nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.”
6 “I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.”
7 “I knew I didn’t want to come out in the ‘New Yorker’; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.”
8 “There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.”
9 “I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.”
10 ” I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.”
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