"I'm rapping in English but in an African……" — Emmanuel Jal
"I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American."
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40 Quotes by Emmanuel Jal
Emmanuel Jal has 40 quotes on this site.
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Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper
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Music is actually where I see heaven.
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The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a…
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To tell my story, to touch lives.
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Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
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I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't…
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I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
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I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
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Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
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I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to…
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In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with…
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If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.
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More African Quotes
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one of 934 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure…
— Joyce Banda
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look…
— Dave Barry
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
— Xavier Becerra
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I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell…
— Glenn Beck
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
— Larry Bird
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to…
— Mary J. Blige
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
— Bono
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal…
— Bono
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you…
— Bono
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