Emmanuel Jal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Eye #People #Evil
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Mother #Rap #People
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Art #Communication #Simplicity
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Children #Understanding #Soldier
I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Fighting #Soldier #Paper
If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Want
In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Gorillas #Monkeys #Forests
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.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Moving #Identity #Needs
Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Gun #Coward #Use
I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Years #Poverty #Aids
I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Real #Fake #Hip Hop
I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Football #Family Love #Games
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.'
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Giving Up #Talking
[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#God #War #Land
Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Heart #Mind #Pieces
Itâ€™s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. Itâ€™s a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesnâ€™t know their purpose, they get lost.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Boys #People #Trying
A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Heart #Cold #Protection
In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Community #Used #Music Is
I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#People #Sudan
When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Boys #People #Judging
Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Powerful #Heart #Soul
Education is the only solution for peace.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Solutions
A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Children #Soldier #Mind
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.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Christian #Mum
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.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Challenges #That One Person #Chance
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.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Dream #Sleep #Gun
Music is actually where I see heaven.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Heaven #Music Is
To tell my story, to touch lives.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Stories
Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Gun #Knives #Insecurity
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Rap #Trying #Sound

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