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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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Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.
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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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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 skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.
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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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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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Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.
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I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
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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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What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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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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