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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.

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 is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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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 everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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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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Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, Oh. He's just being stupid.
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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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Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
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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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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 transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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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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