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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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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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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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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.
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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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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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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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As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
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