67 Quotes by Emmanuel Jal

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

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.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

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.