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.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

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

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Well, can you tell her that?"He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will."Guy-speak for, "I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.

Career is just posh slavery.

The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.