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Don't let misery bring you down.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
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You can fall, but you can rise also.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Happiness
Moving On
Success
Perseverance
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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
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I don't care about what people think about me.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Care
People
Thinking
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Fall
Stand For Something
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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Knows
Refuse
Who I Am
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I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Know How
Knows
Stories
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Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
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Ifs
Manipulate
Victim
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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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Long
Problem
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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Stories
Storyteller
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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 cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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Ifs
People
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Inspirational
Brain
Heart
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I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Mines
People
Talk To Me
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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Ability
Country
Educated
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You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Skin Color
Skins
World
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As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Categories
Color
Should
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Don't Trust
Modern
Roots
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If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Achieve
World
Would Be
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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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Believe
Empowering
People
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Ideas
Mean
Perfect
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Differences
Legacy
Together
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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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Country
People
Political
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Facts
People
Refuse
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Done
Looks
Mirrors
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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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Born
East
West
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Misery
People
Want
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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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Define You
Proud
Thinking
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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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Dream
Heart
Hurt
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Accessories
Dresses
Thinking
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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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Hurt
Lines
Sake
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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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Care
Skin Color
Skins
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Challenges
Color
Long
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Important
People
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Comfort
Hard Times
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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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Community
Vision
World
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Government
Make Sense
Politician
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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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Technology
Artist
Hype
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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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Challenges
Fall
Important
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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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Bridges
Doors
Music Love
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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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Drug
Hate
Long
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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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Attention
Challenges
People
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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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Giving
Racist
Stupid
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Feelings
Musician
People
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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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Body
Sanctuary
Views
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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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Defining
Love You
People
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Dna
Rock And Roll
Rocks
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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.
Angelique Kidjo / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Teacher
Children
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