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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

Long Time
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Nov 07, 2020

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

Gun
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Nov 07, 2020

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

Family
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Nov 07, 2020

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Child
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Nov 07, 2020

There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

Beautiful
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Nov 07, 2020

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

Balance
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Nov 07, 2020

I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates a sense of balance and stillness which is important for any performing artist.

See
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Nov 07, 2020

When you see a Sudanese walking on the street, there is a story.

Nov 07, 2020

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

Fight
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Nov 07, 2020

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

Christian
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Nov 07, 2020

For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.

Back
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Nov 07, 2020

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

Nov 07, 2020

When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.

Emotions
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Nov 07, 2020

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.

Community
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Nov 07, 2020

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

Best
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Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Nov 07, 2020

In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.

Inspire
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Nov 07, 2020

We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.

Poverty
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Nov 07, 2020

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

Gun
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Nov 07, 2020

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

Gun
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Nov 07, 2020

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Keep Moving
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.

Help
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Nov 07, 2020

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

Darfur
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Nov 07, 2020

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

Fighting
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

Nov 07, 2020

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

Injuries
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Nov 07, 2020

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

Big Difference
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Nov 07, 2020

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

Monkey
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Nov 07, 2020

In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

Mother
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

Only
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Nov 07, 2020

Education is the only solution for peace.

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.

Lose
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Nov 07, 2020

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

Giving
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Nov 07, 2020

When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

Fake
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Nov 07, 2020

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.

Nov 07, 2020

The wealthiest Sudanese don't know what war is. Their children are safe in school.

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