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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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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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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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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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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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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.
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Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
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Don't let misery bring you down.
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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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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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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of 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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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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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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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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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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