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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
Angelique Kidjo
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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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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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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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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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Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't care about what people think about me.
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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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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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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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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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