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My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

Angelique Kidjo

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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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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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I don't care about what people think about me.
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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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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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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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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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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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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 we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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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 refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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