Thinking Quotes by Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah

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

Ishmael Beah

I guess what I’d like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids to school; they want to live in peace; they want to have their basic rights of life just like everyone else. I think we all owe an obligation to support people who want to do that.

Kids

School

Thinking

Ishmael Beah

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

Night

Thinking

War

Ishmael Beah

We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.

Glimpse

Radiance

Thinking

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Awakening

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Believe

Boys

Childhood

Children

Confusion

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Dialect

Ends

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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

Squad

Stars

Stills

Stories

Strive

Suffering

Teeth

Term

Thinking

Three

Tradition

Trusting Each Other

Two

Views

War

Years

Thinking Quotes by Ishmael Beah

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.

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