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You can fall, but you can rise also.

Angelique Kidjo

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Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, Oh. He's just being stupid.
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From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.
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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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I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.
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Doing an album is like having a business card to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.
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We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.
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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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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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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 don't care about what people think about me.
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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.
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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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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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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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