But nothing gets better. There is no path for improvement—n… - Clemantine Wamariya

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But nothing gets better. There is no path for improvement—no effort you can make, nothing you can do, and nothing anybody else can do either, short of the killers in your country laying down their arms and stopping their war so that you can move home.

Clemantine Wamariya

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

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Alternative Names: Joyful Clemantine Wamariya

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My life does not feel logical, sequential, or inevitable. There’s no sense of action, reaction; no consequence, repercussion; no plot. It’s just fragments, floating.

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Anything to help me connect with my strength beyond suffering.

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