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Ishmael Beah

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Ishmael Beah Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Ishmael Beah

Birthname

Birthday: November 23, 1980

Educated At: Oberlin College

Nationality: Sierra Leonean, Sierra Leone

Occupations: Writer

Total quotes: 4

“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day…and something good to happen.”

— Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Tagged: Hope, Life, Hope for the better, Positivity

“My childhood had gone by without my knowing.”

— Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Tagged: Childhood, Past, Growing Up

“When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.’ I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn’t know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.”

— Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Tagged: alive, purpose, Advice

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

— Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Tagged: Stars, Pain, Suffering

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