"What I always wanted to do when I……" — Emmanuel Jal
"What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards."
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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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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 Afterwards Quotes
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
— Teresa of Avila
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine…
— Honore de Balzac
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
— Shana Alexander
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won…
— Amy Chua
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.…
— Winston Churchill
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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on…
— Thomas Aquinas
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