Qorianka Kilcher Quotes Qorianka Kilcher Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru. HalfQuechuaHuachipaeri Indigenous Peru Proud Yes
I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong. Qorianka Kilcher
'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated. Qorianka Kilcher
I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage. Qorianka Kilcher
I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe. Qorianka Kilcher
Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life. Qorianka Kilcher
Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world. Qorianka Kilcher
I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so… I feel such a deep connection to it. Qorianka Kilcher
I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control. Qorianka Kilcher
I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener. Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett
I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean – not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps. G-Dragon
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway. B. B King
I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something. Kurt Cobain
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. Elwyn Brooks White