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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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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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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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I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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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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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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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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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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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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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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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 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 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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Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
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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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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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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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Don't let misery bring you down.
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