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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

Angelique Kidjo

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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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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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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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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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From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.
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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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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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My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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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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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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