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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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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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I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
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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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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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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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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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Don't let misery bring you down.
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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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Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.
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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 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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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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