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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…
• ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was…
• 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…
• 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…
• As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night,…
• 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…
• I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was…

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