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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.

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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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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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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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 have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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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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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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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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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’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.
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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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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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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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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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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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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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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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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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