Odette Nyiramilimo

"She was cautiously challenging the revisionist view of Rusesabagina that the government has taken such pains to propagate. “He was very humane,”"

"I could see the Interahamwe in the streets, though I was terrified to look at them"

"Rusesabagina had been brought down by hubris — his deluded conviction that it was he"

"He(Rusesabagina) really wanted to be the star."

"Because of the genocide, many people didn’t want to hear about birth control"

"Nearly half of Rwanda’s legislators are female."

"There is no denying that Mr Rusesabagina risked his life to provide refuge for me and my family and many others."

"We were hiding in our house in Nyamirambo after hearing my name being read among those who had been killed. We had to bribe the police every day to remain hidden. Mr Rusesabagina, who was a family friend, called to see if we were alive. After learning that we were alive, he sent a soldier to pick us up and take us to Hotel Mille Collines. It was a dangerous journey, so we had to be driven one by one and bribed our way through the roadblocks and lied that we were Hutu. It was a miracle that we arrived at the hotel."