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" A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone. "
Emmanuel Jal
Feel
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" Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic. "
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" Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves. "
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" We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change. "
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" When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander. "
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" In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for. "
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" When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive. "
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" I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease. "
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" When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer. "
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" I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American. "
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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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" When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow. "
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" 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. "
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" Young people are so brave when they go to fight. "
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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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" 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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" Education is the only solution for peace. "
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" What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me. "
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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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Work
Identity
" There's no pride in having been a child soldier. "
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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. "
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" I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid. "
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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 you really kill, you don't want to talk about it. "
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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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" Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity. "
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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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" The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending. "
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" The wealthiest Sudanese don't know what war is. Their children are safe in school. "
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" 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.' "
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