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

Angelique Kidjo

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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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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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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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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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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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I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
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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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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 you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.
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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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You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
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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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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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Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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I’m honoured when Africa recognises 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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