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

Angelique Kidjo

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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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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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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for 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 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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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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Don't let misery bring you down.
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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’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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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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You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
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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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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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I don't care about what people think about me.
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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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