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You can fall, but you can rise also.

Angelique Kidjo

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The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.
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Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.
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If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.
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What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.
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