Alephonsion Deng > Quotes

“Great wisdom is achieved by being open to the world. The world does not open unless you are willing to be open.”
― Alephonsion Deng

“Family became so important to me. Without it I was like a tree alone in a desert.”
― Alephonsion Deng, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

“We’d never handled guns so when we saw a person handle it and it went bang, we knew that thing killed. We called it the harmful stick. We learned quickly that if somebody points the stick at you, you die.”
― Alephonsion Deng, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

“No matter how bad the situation is, if you can't find any humor then life is not worth it.”
― Alephonsion Deng

“From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.”
― Alephonsion Deng

“He’d say, “If my mother was here, I wouldn’t be like this.” We’d say, “Shut up boy, you’re not in your mama’s house no more.” We said that a lot. As children, seven or eight years old, we know nothing about the world, just that we were not in mama’s house no more.”
― Alephonsion Deng

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― Alephonsion Deng, Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights