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I am very grateful to the young people who have chosen to write, because if we don’t write our stories, they could be lost. I wrote to you years ago and I am still writing to you. I want you to write for your children, your grandchildren, and your great-grandchildren

— Yolande Mukagasana

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Nothing is more destructive than never being satisfied with who you are and what you have.

There will be no humanity without forgiveness, there will be no forgiveness without justice, and there will be no justice without humanity.

When writing, let your words come from the heart.

As keepers of memory, we cannot accept the distortion of Rwanda’s history which include the genocide.

The genocide perpetrated against Tutsi is the history of Rwandans, it is the history of humanity.

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