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I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

Angelique Kidjo

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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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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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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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Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
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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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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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What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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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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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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Don't let misery bring you down.
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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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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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I don't care about what people think about me.
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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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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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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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Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.
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