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Emmanuel Jal has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper
• Music is actually where I see heaven.
• The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye
• To tell my story, to touch lives.
• Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
• I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up,…
• I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
• I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
• I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
• Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
• I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on…
• In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas…

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