Emmanuel Jal Zitate auf Englisch

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

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

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

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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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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.'

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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.

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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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The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

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

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We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.

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

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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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Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

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I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

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The wealthiest Sudanese don't know what war is. Their children are safe in school.

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Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

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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.

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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

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

Emmanuel Jal