Top 45 Quotes by Emmanuel Jal

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

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