“I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of...” — Ishmael Beah Quote

“I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day.”

“Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.”

“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.”