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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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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
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Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.
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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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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 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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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 can fall, but you can rise also.
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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 am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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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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I don't care about what people think about me.
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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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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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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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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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