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• My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

  Ishmael Beah

  Teeth, Stories, Quiet

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.80, Macmillan

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• I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.

  Ishmael Beah

  Soccer, Morning, School

  "Former Child Soldier Recalls Experiences in Sierra Leone". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2007.

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• I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

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  Boys, Imagination, Age

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• The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

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  Expression, Three, Dialect

  Ishmael Beah (2014). “Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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

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  Safety, More Time, Term

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.70, Macmillan

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

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  Believe, I Believe, Tradition

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• In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

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  War, Years, Two

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