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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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" 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. "

Emmanuel Jal

Need

Work

Identity

" In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for. "

" Young people are so brave when they go to fight. "

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

Emmanuel Jal

Fake

Real

" 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. "

" When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow. "

" Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up. "

Emmanuel Jal

Because

" Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves. "

" Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity. "

" Education is the only solution for peace. "

" There's no pride in having been a child soldier. "

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

" I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy. "

" I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American. "

" Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication. "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

Emmanuel Jal

Time

Long Time

" When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer. "

Emmanuel Jal

Tongue

Village

" 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. "

" 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. "

Emmanuel Jal

Time

School