War Child: A Child Soldier's Story
A source page for quotes linked to Emmanuel Jal.
“I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.”
“Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.”
“I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.”
“A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.”
“I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.”
“When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.”
“Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.”
“I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.”
“To tell my story, to touch lives.”
“Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.”