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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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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
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You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
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Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
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Don't let misery bring you down.
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There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.
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With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.
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It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.
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What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
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For me, from the point of view of my life, I've been impacted by women that taught me that, as a woman, my body is a sanctuary, that whoever I invite in my body, I have to be clear in that invitation.
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The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.
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I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.
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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
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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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