"In Africa, music is for everything, Music was……" — Emmanuel Jal
"In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for."
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40 Quotes by Emmanuel Jal
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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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I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
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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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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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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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