I love playing with words and texture.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

All people have dignity. Theres nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.

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

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated

People reach an age... where somebody elses platform is no longer yours.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

People with money tend to buy more things instead of experiences...because they don't have time.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him

And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

I was shy. I was more than shy.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.