Top 45 Quotes by Emmanuel Jal

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.