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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
Angelique Kidjo
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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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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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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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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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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.
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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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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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I don't care about what people think about me.
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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
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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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