I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

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?

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.