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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 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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Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
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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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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 refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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I don't care about what people think about me.
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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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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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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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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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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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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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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 have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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