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Clemantine Wamariya

American Author

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it's going to come back to you. Clemantine Wamariya

Life You Selfish Unkind Back Come Going Being Being Selfish Keep

As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me otherwise when her strength and resilience made the impossible possible in the way she worked, behaved, and took control of our lives. Clemantine Wamariya

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No matter what is happening in your life, you always offer tea. Clemantine Wamariya

Life You Matter Tea Always Offer Happening Your

There are millions of people, refugees, who have experienced the same conflicts and struggles I did. They have the same potential to defy the odds and achieve great things. Clemantine Wamariya

Great People Great Things Achieve Odds Defy Potential Struggles Did Same Refugees Experienced Conflicts Who Things Millions Millions Of People

It occurred to me that memorials shouldn't be grand. If you really want to honor the memory of a tragedy, you shouldn't create areas of calm reflection. You should make people uncomfortable. Put them in the shoes of those who perpetrated and those who suffered. Then ask, would they be able to forgive in these situations? Clemantine Wamariya

Me You Memory People Reflection Honor Calm Shoes Those Would Memorials Able Area Uncomfortable Put Make Occurred Tragedy Forgive Situations Want Grand Them Ask Then Create Really Should Who Suffered

Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away. Clemantine Wamariya

Forgiveness Me Past Allowed Burdened Wash Away

If you want to learn about the history of a people, eat their food and drink their beverages. Clemantine Wamariya

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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. Clemantine Wamariya

Me Hate Hide Light Way About Outside Feel Reminds Like Safer Another Camp Refugee Being Anything Happens Thing Night

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. Clemantine Wamariya

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. Clemantine Wamariya

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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. Clemantine Wamariya

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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. Clemantine Wamariya

Life Me Fight Book People Treat My Life Shifting Changed Way See Able Inspiring Am His Any Injustices Night

Always strive to be a better you for you and for other. Clemantine Wamariya

You Better Other Strive Always

Set goals but be flexible. Clemantine Wamariya

Goals Flexible Set

The benefits of Umuganda are not merely economic. The day is intended to build community involvement and strengthen cohesion between persons of different background and levels. One such a benefit is that people can access authorities to articulate their needs and voice opinions on various issues. Clemantine Wamariya

Day Needs People Benefits Build Community Benefit Background Various Voice Economic Merely Between Involvement Access Opinions Issues Articulate Authorities Intended Different Persons Strengthen Levels Cohesion

Children tell the truth. Clemantine Wamariya

Truth Tell Children

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. Clemantine Wamariya

Hope People World Inspire Country Own Think Other Aim Dare About Sharing Around Go Experiences Stories Story Them Deep

The world is part of us, and we are part of the world. Even through the smallest acts, we can demonstrate that. I believe in the human spirit, in the kindness in all of us, and I am hopeful for this world. Clemantine Wamariya

Kindness World Believe Hopeful Spirit Through Part Smallest Am Demonstrate Human Us Even Human Spirit Acts

Every single person on the planet has equal humanity. Clemantine Wamariya

Humanity Single Every Equal Single Person Person Planet

Being able to connect with other humans is something I've done since I was little. Clemantine Wamariya

Other Able Something Since Done Being Little Connect Humans

The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative. Clemantine Wamariya

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