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" A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone. "
Feel
Heart
Anything
" A lot of child soldiers lose their minds. "
Lose
Lot
Child
" Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal. "
Care
Understanding
Love
" 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.' "
World
Child
Future
" Education is the only solution for peace. "
Solution
Only
Education
" For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later. "
Muslim
She
Strength
" 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. "
Rise Above
I Am
Chance
" I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan. "
Know
Where
Than
" I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond. "
Fake
Real
Like
" 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. "
More
Sleep
Gun
" If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it. "
About
Want
You
" I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid. "
Aid
Up
Years
" I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family. "
Football
Lost
Love
" 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. "
Need
Work
Identity
" I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy. "
Sometimes
People
Happy
" I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American. "
Sound
American
Trying
" I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease. "
Day
Peace
Soldier
" In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for. "
Africa
Community
Everything
" 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. "
Know
Africa
Forest
" 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. "
Music
Yourself
Dance
" 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.' "
Time
Me
Long Time
" 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? "
Heaven
You
Thought
" I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates a sense of balance and stillness which is important for any performing artist. "
Artist
Mind
Balance
" Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity. "
Crime
Poverty
Knife
" Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission. "
Without
Mind
Heart
" Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up. "
Me
Because
Up
" Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves. "
Respect
Coward
Get
" Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem. "
Rap
Amazing
Beautiful
" Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication. "
Communication
Art
Simplicity
" The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending. "
World
Time
Ending
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