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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
Angelique Kidjo
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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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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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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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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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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
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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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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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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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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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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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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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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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I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
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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 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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