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It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement.

Binyavanga Wainaina

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainaina

Born: January 18, 1971
Died: May 21, 2019 (aged 48)
Bio: Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In April 2014, Time magazine included Wainaina in its annual TIME 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World."
Known for:
  1. How to Write about Africa (2006)
  2. Discovering Home (2003)
  3. Kwani? 1 (2003)
  4. Beyond the River Yei (2004)

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