Clemantine Wamariya Quotes
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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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My day-to-day varies. I do some public speaking. I talk to school groups.
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I want to listen to people's stories and find strength in them. There is so much human-caused pain and suffering in the world. I want to honor all those difficult experiences and acknowledge their aftermath. At the same time, I want to really see and love the world around me.
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I want to tap into everyone's senses, to touch on our human sensibility.
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Never allow other people to classify you based on your past and current circumstances, where you were born, your experiences, your gender, or your race.
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Being kind to myself helped me deal with people who thought less of me and thought they were better than me.
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Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.
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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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I want to create or be a platform for people who have been labelled as a victim. I'm not going to be their voice; that's their voice. I want to allow people to voice their life beyond labels.
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My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.
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I hate light... I feel like at night, it's safer. If anything happens, there's a way to hide at night. Another thing I hate about light is it reminds me about being in a refugee camp and being outside.
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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 am not a refugee. I sought refuge for many years, but the word 'refugee' does not define me. It just limits me and puts me in a box.
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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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I never thought that being a public speaker would teach me so much about life and make it so beautiful as well.
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Growing up, many of us are taught to place limits on what we can accomplish while on earth. We tend to think of things in binary form: either as possible or, more frequently, impossible.
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Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.
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It's taken a lot of years for me to learn how to share my story.
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There are a lot of great people everywhere. And there are also a lot of not so great people.
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Sharing presumes and creates equality.