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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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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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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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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 refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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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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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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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.
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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.
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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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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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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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Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.
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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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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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