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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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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'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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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
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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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I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
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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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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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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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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.
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