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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
Angelique Kidjo
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The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.
Angelique Kidjo
Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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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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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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Don't let misery bring you down.
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I don't care about what people think about me.
Angelique Kidjo
I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
Angelique Kidjo
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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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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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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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.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent from south to north, to east to west.
Angelique Kidjo
I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.
Angelique Kidjo
It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
Angelique Kidjo
There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.
Angelique Kidjo
