Make your education personal. When it matters to you, you will show up. — Clemantine Wamariya Education Copy Share Image
My day-to-day varies. I do some public speaking. I talk to school groups. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
I want to tap into everyone's senses, to touch on our human sensibility. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
If you want to learn about the history of a people, eat their food and drink their beverages. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it. — Clemantine Wamariya Coping Copy Share Image
Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
Being kind to myself helped me deal with people who thought less of me and thought they were better than me. — Clemantine Wamariya Being Copy Share Image
The tradition of Umuganda is a beautiful and inspiring one. It connects people to their surrounds and creates a responsible community. — Clemantine Wamariya Beautiful Copy Share Image
I want people to know that they are the masters, the queens, kings, and gods of their own story. — Clemantine Wamariya Gods Copy Share Image
I am thankful to those who've listened to my story over and over as well as those who've helped me share it.… — Clemantine Wamariya Healing Copy Share Image
All that I have achieved has been possible not only because of my own strength and perseverance, gained through hardship, but also… — Clemantine Wamariya Belief Copy Share Image
I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor of hunger, of hate, of different injustices that humans are facing today. — Clemantine Wamariya Hate Copy Share Image
The benefits of Umuganda are not merely economic. The day is intended to build community involvement and strengthen cohesion between persons of… — Clemantine Wamariya Benefit Copy Share Image
My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me… — Clemantine Wamariya Children Copy Share Image
To the young girl who fails to see opportunities around her: Awaken the intellectual curiosity within you. Go on, search for those… — Clemantine Wamariya Curiosity Copy Share Image
In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family and then seven years knowing that they were dead and them… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
It is so important to share experiences with one another. Humans are so often in their own heads and not looking to… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
My formal speaking career began before a group of 10 third-graders. We drew pictures of my home in Rwanda. I told them… — Clemantine Wamariya Home Copy Share Image
I enjoyed playing everywhere, especially my mother's garden and my neighbor's. I loved my kindergarten. We sang songs; we played everywhere and… — Clemantine Wamariya Childhood Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to lose any more people as a result of hatred. — Clemantine Wamariya Hatred Copy Share Image
You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it's going to come back to you. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
It has taken me so many years to finally be in my bed and fall asleep for six hours. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
People say you can't change the world. But you can change people. — Clemantine Wamariya Change Copy Share Image
There are a lot of great people everywhere. And there are also a lot of not so great people. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
I was six years old when the conflict started in Rwanda. — Clemantine Wamariya Conflict Copy Share Image
