Emmanuel Jal quotes

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease. (Emmanuel Jal)
I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.
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A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
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Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.
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I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'
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I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
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Education is the only solution for peace.
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Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
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In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.
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Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
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I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American. (Emmanuel Jal)
Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
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Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
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I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
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I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
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I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.
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If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.
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I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.
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When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
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I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.
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When you see a Sudanese walking on the street, there is a story. (Emmanuel Jal)
A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.
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If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.
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For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.
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When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.
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