- Musician | 1980 -
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.
Emmanuel Jal
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When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.
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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?
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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 the gorillas and monkey.
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I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.
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When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.
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I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
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If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.
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The wealthiest Sudanese don't know what war is. Their children are safe in school.
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