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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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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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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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What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
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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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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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Don't let misery bring you down.
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I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.
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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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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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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 never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.
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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 you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.
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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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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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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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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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