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I don't care about what people think about me.

Angelique Kidjo

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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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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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Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
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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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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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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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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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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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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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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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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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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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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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I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.
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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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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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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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