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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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Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent from south to north, to east to west.
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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Don't let misery bring you down.
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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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