67 Quotes by Emmanuel Jal

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

When people know you’ve been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

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.

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

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.’

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper.

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

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.

If you really kill, you don’t want to talk about it.