Top 45 Quotes by Emmanuel Jal

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

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

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

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.'

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.

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

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

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.