Quote

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.

Angelique Kidjo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Angelique Kidjo
People
According
Putting
Anybody
Opinion
Happy
Category
Family
Defining
Makes
Counts
Love
Categories

More quotes by Angelique Kidjo

Image
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
Don't let misery bring you down.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
Doing an album is like having a business card to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
Angelique Kidjo
Image
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
Angelique Kidjo