Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
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Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.
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'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.
Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
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.
Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
There's no pride in having been a child soldier.
Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.
When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.
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.'
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.
War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.
A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.
Education is the only solution for peace.
I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?
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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