Radiance of Tomorrow Quotes

“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.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

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

“But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was more violent than making them believe they deserved less and less every day?”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“I learned that you are not free until you stop others from making you feel worthless. Because if you do not, you will eventually accept that you are worthless.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense—one has to listen and keep it in one’s heart, in one’s blood, until the day it will become useful.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“It was a night filled with dreams of what was to come. Dreams were still possible here even though the paths to attain them weren't necessarily the best ones. But who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“Poverty is worse than nightmares. You can wake up from nightmares.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“There’s a saying in the oral tradition of storytelling that when you tell a story, when you give out a story, it is no longer yours; it belongs to everyone who encounters it and everyone who takes it in.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel

“This wasn’t a place for illusions; the reality here was the genuine happiness that came about from the natural magic of standing next to someone and being consumed by the fortitude in his or her humanity.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel

“So they must find a way to repair their broken hearts by relighting the fire that is now dull within them. They should live for that.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“If anyone had told them that they would look back at this day while having conversations that mended the repetitive brokenness in so many lives, they wouldn't have believe it.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“Should people take justice in their own hands when their system of law does not function?”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

“Everyone is trying to believe in something these days, and they forget that miracles happen every day when we truly acknowledge the humanity of another or just have a simple, pure conversation with someone else.”
― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

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― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel