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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

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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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
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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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There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.
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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
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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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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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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 is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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