Exile Life Quotes

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas.

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.

We spend on average 220 days of the year out of the country. It's a long time to be away from your family especially when your children are growing up.

I am not in exile.

As a political exile, you always think you're going home next year.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.