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.
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.
It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.
We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.
