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“I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.”
Source : "I am a homosexual, mum". africasacountry.com. January 19, 2014. 
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“I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.”
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“If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.”
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“In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.”
Source : "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
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“I think a lot of chefs can definitely think about great flavor combinations and stuff, but then they'll pass it along to their pastry chef to actually do it in the end. Pastries, you actually do using recipes, and it's got a little more of a science to it. It's something that a lot of times, chefs aren't really involved in coming up with throughout their career, so it makes it a little more challenging.”
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“I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.”
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“Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes [into the work] later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.”
Source : Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.
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“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”
Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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“The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.”
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“Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
