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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

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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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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
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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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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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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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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 am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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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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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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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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I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
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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 don't care about what people think about me.
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Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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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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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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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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