Author: Emmanuel Jal

Quotes

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.

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

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

- Emmanuel Jal

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

- Emmanuel Jal

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.'

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

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

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

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

- Emmanuel Jal

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

- Emmanuel Jal

In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.

In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.

- Emmanuel Jal

I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

- Emmanuel Jal

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