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:: Here, you can find very impressing and expressionful quotations of China. Quotes, which reflect very much about her feelings and as well about her desires and aims. ::  Foto & © W.Lechner-Schmidt
"See me as a child soldier, not as a monster" (China Keitetsi) (China Keitetsi 17.09.2007, Press Conference - House of the Federal Press Conference (BPK) in Berlin)
"I believe in the global exchange of ideas. Children always ask questions when they are little. It's their only way of learning and we can learn from them, by asking the right questions. Even more important is to listen to the answers." (China Keitetsi) (China Keitetsi 09.09.2006, why she took part at Dropping Knowledge in Berlin)
"We want a world coloured by nature and not by human blood." (China Keitetsi 16.06.2006)
"Soon the rain might stop, because the blood of children is taking over the job of the rain" (China Keitetsi 21.03.2006 at Club Nijmegen)
"Formerly I was apparent a child, but mentally old - only today I feel young."" China at the opening of the exhibition "Kopfverletzungen" (Head injuries) at the Landtag [legislative assembly of a German state] Brandenburg on 16.03.2006
"The army left me no chance to be a child. You are 10 years old and feeling like you are 20 years old. Today I am 28 and I don't feel 28, I feel very old."
"You don't see scars on my face, I laugh... nevertheless: I've lost my parents, my siblings, my childhood, my dignity of beeing a woman, Every day I must relearn, to love myself.“ (18.02.2006)
"I never bickered with god. All that happened to me, is the responsibility of power possessed human beings, not of God!" (2005)
"When I was 15, I couldn't count how many men abused my body and that is the most difficult thing to live with."
"Sometimes I feel as if I am 6 years old, and sometimes as though I am 100 years old because of all that I have seen."
"We were not allowed to share each other's fears, everything that happened we kept it for ourselves."
"I hope that in future our arms can help all children, but for now one hand, a child needs it." |