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Don't let misery bring you down.
Angelique Kidjo
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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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Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
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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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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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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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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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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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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'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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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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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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You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
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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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I don't care about what people think about me.
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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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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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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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What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
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