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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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I don't care about what people think about me.
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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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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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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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You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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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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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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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’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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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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As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
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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 you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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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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I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
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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 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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What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
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