I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.
My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.
I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.
My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.
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