Ishmael Beah Quotes

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• We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities,…
• ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.
• My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.
• My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.
• This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.
• I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me…
• This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.
• I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a…
• As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the…
• How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?
• I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up…
• I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last…
• The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects.…
• In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came…
• I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids…
• Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the…
• I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At…
• How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but…
• My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.
• We must strive to be like the moon

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