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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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Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.
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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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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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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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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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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.
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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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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 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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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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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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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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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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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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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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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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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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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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