"Yes, Iâ€™m proud to be indigenous. Iâ€™m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru."

-- Q'orianka Kilcher

#Half Quotes #Proud Quotes #Peru Quotes

“It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.”
“I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.”
“Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.”
“Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.”
“As we mourn President Mandelaâ€™s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africaâ€™s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?”
“Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.”
“True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.”
“Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.”

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