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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.

Angelique Kidjo

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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.
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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.
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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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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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Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent from south to north, to east to west.
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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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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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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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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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If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.
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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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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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