Emmanuel Jal Quotes
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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.
— Emmanuel Jal
If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.
— Emmanuel Jal
To tell my story, to touch lives.
— Emmanuel Jal
What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.
— Emmanuel Jal
Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
— Emmanuel Jal
I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
— Emmanuel Jal
Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper
— Emmanuel Jal
Education is the only solution for peace.
— Emmanuel Jal
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
The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye
— Emmanuel Jal
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.
— Emmanuel Jal
I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
— Emmanuel Jal
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
— Emmanuel Jal
There's no pride in having been a child soldier.
— Emmanuel Jal
Music is actually where I see heaven.
— Emmanuel Jal
I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.
— Emmanuel Jal
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
— Emmanuel Jal
Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.
— Emmanuel Jal
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
— Emmanuel Jal
When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.
— Emmanuel Jal
Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.
— Emmanuel Jal
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.
— Emmanuel Jal
A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
— Emmanuel Jal
In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.
— Emmanuel Jal
When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.
— Emmanuel Jal
Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.
— Emmanuel Jal
Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.
— Emmanuel Jal
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
Young people are so brave when they go to fight.
— Emmanuel Jal
