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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

Angelique Kidjo

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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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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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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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As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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