Best Ishmael Beah Quotes
- I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to… Another Person
- I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness. Believed
- I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five… Community
- I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods. African
- I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives… Age
- As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated. Child
- For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living… Another Life
- What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they… All