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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.
Angelique Kidjo
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The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.
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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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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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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 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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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.
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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.
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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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I don't care about what people think about me.
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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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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 refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
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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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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
Angelique Kidjo
As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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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.
Angelique Kidjo
