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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
Angelique Kidjo
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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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What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.
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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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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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You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
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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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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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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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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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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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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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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 am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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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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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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Don't let misery bring you down.
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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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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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There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.
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