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.'
There's no pride in having been a child soldier.
Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
When you see a Sudanese walking on the street, there is a story.
Young people are so brave when they go to fight.
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
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.
Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.
In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.
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.
We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.
Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
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.
What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.
Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.
When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.
When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.
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?
Education is the only solution for peace.
I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.
