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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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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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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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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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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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