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Angelique Kidjo
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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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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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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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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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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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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 anyone define and decide for you fate.
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I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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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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You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
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I don't care about what people think about me.
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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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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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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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Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
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