Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye
When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people. , he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That’s how we overcome, most of the time. It’s not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.
As a songwriter, the minute you start having sex, you can totally see the difference in the writing. You become an adult - that's kind of the whole backbone of it, really, your identity as a person and what sex means to you.