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Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
Angelique Kidjo
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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.
Angelique Kidjo
I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
Angelique Kidjo
If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
Angelique Kidjo
I don't care about what people think about me.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Don't let misery bring you down.
Angelique Kidjo
Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
Angelique Kidjo
Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent from south to north, to east to west.
Angelique Kidjo