ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.

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

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.

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.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.