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

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 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 love playing with words and texture.

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

Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98)

The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.

There is no "I" as such apart from others.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.