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

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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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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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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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 long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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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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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 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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What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
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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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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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You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
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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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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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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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