Angelique Kidjo Quotes
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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'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
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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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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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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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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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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 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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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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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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Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls' education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.
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Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
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You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don't care about what people think about me.
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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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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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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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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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