Words matter. These are the best Q’orianka Kilcher Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it’s important to invest in them and show them another way – show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can’t do. Because by investing in youth, we’re investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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.
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
My father’s Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I’m also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
My birthday is Feb. 11, and I’m both excited and not excited by it. You’ll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it’s your last.
I used to have all these plans and think ‘Ah, I have my whole life figured out’, but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
Portraying Pocahontas’ story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
I lose film roles because I’m a person who doesn’t keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I’m going to go and do something about it.
I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven’t really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.
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.
I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you’re interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.
‘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.
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.
In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
Yes, I’m proud to be indigenous. I’m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
