Clemantine Wamariya Quotes
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I'm open to everything. Take me anywhere, show me everything.
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From age six to 12, I lived in seven different countries, moving from one refugee camp to another, hoping we would be wanted.
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After my final semester at Yale in December of 2013, I made a scary choice. Instead of looking for work - feeling over-read and underweight - that for a few months I would go wherever the wind carried me. I would become a student of the world, and I would eat.
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No matter what is happening in your life, you always offer tea.
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'Night' may be one of the most important books that people can read today. It is a story of how hate can slowly take over a society. It shows what happens when people are dehumanized.
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Labels and classifications of any type are not law, nor are they written in stone. It's up to us to be aware of this and confront it and break through it by doing things that shock and surprise people because they thought we could never achieve at that level.
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I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.
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Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.
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I think, when you survive any intense experience, people try to moralize you; a lot of people just try to raise you high, and it's so not fair to you and to everybody else.
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I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor of hunger, of hate, of different injustices that humans are facing today.
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Always strive to be a better you for you and for other.
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You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it's going to come back to you.
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When you receive an education, you pass it on.
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If we believe that a person seeking refuge is to be pitied, feared, despised, and looked down upon, we are doing ourselves a disservice.
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I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and hope to inspire them to think about their own world and experiences.
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Elie Wiesel and his book 'Night' have changed my life, shifting the way I see and treat people and inspiring me to fight injustices any way I am able.
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Children tell the truth.
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My day-to-day varies. I do some public speaking. I talk to school groups.
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We cannot afford to lose any more people as a result of hatred.
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Make your education personal. When it matters to you, you will show up.
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Everything I own in my closet has a story. Stuff is not just stuff - things were given to me with love.
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Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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To the young girl who fails to see opportunities around her: Awaken the intellectual curiosity within you. Go on, search for those opportunities and chase after them! Because when you are curious and in 'search mode,' you will meet a lot of people and learn, and when you find opportunities, you will be exhilarated rather than overwhelmed.
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I was six years old when the conflict started in Rwanda.