Quotes by South Sudanese Authors

Today, I run for pure, absolute joy.

Lopez Lomong

I had thought about forgiveness more and more...I knew it wasn't a light that could be switched on in an instant-it grew day by day, week by week, month by month-but something was changing inside me now during the hours when I sat alone and tried to calm my feelings. A seed had been sown, and I sensed that, just as I'd once faced a choice about whether to use violence on the night when I stared at the gun, I know had another choice: to remain trapped in the bitterness of the past or to find peace in the present.

Emmanuel Jal

We’d never handled guns so when we saw a person handle it and it went bang, we knew that thing killed. We called it the harmful stick. We learned quickly that if somebody points the stick at you, you die.

Alephonsion Deng

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.

Alephonsion Deng