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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.
Angelique Kidjo
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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
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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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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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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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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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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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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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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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