Quotes by Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah

…children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

Children

Resilience

Suffering

A lot of people, when they say forgive and forget, they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they dont haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

Forget Everything

People

Thinking

As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.

Kids

Morning

Song

For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible.

Children

Views

War

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

More Time

Safety

Term

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?” he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn’t say anything. He continued: “Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

Eye

People

Safety

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

Knows

Quiet

Speak

I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don’t share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don’t share your views.

Believe

Heart

Views

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

Believe

I Believe

Tradition

I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood is still embedded in me.

Childhood

Moon

Please Me

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Age

Army

Awakening

Be Careful

Believe

Boys

Childhood

Children

Confusion

Country

Dialect

Ends

Expression

Eye

Father

Forget Everything

Fragility

Glimpse

Gun

Heart

Hurt

I Believe

Imagination

Insightful

Journey

Joy

Kids

Knowing

Knows

Letting Go

Moon

More Time

Morning

Moving

My Family

My Journey

Night

Pain

People

Please Me

Quiet

Radiance

Resilience

Revenge

Safety

School

Sky

Soccer

Song

Speak

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Quotes by Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah

…children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood is still embedded in me.

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