Every single person on the planet has equal humanity. In my… - Clemantine Wamariya

" "
Every single person on the planet has equal humanity. In my own life I’ve gone from being seen as utterly worthless to [having] great privilege, and nothing about who I am inside has changed. Every person you see seeking refuge, every person you see walking away from their whole life because their country has descended into chaos and war…I am every one of those people. You are every one of those people too…

Clemantine Wamariya

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Clemantine Wamariya

Clemantine Wamariya (born 1988) is a Rwandan-American Author, speaker, and human rights activist.

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Joyful Clemantine Wamariya

All quotes from Clemantine Wamariya Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Clemantine Wamariya:

Sylvia Plath Cheryl Strayed Alexander Chee Amy Tan Maya Angelou

Additional quotes by Clemantine Wamariya

It felt surreal and awful. I’d lost track of who I was and who we were to each other. None of us were the same people who’d lived together in that house in Kigali. Those people had died. We had all died.

My body is destroyed and my body is sacred. I will not live in that story of ruin and shame.

We don’t write about the human emotions of conflicts; we write about the political and economic aftermath. I wanted to write about those feelings.

Every single person on the planet has equal humanity. In my own life I’ve gone from being seen as utterly worthless to [having] great privilege, and … - Clemantine Wamariya

About Clemantine Wamariya

Also Known As

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Clemantine Wamariya

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI