Latest Angelique Kidjo Quotes from Interviews

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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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  Would Be, World, Achieve

• 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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  Artist, Technology, Hype

• 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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  People, Important, Albums

• As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.

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  Long, Problem

• 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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  Skin Color, Skins, Care

• 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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  Hate, Long, Drug

• You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Skin Color, Skins, World

• 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, Hurt, Heart

• As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

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  Color, Should, Categories

• 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.

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  Rocks, Dna, Rock And Roll

• 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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  People, Challenges, Attention

• 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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  Mean, Ideas, Perfect

• 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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  East, West, Born

• 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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  People, Facts, Refuse

• 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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  Government, Politician, Make Sense

• I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

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  Stories, Know How, Knows

• It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

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  Country, Ability, Educated

• 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

• 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

• 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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  People, Feelings, Musician

• 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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  Differences, Together, Legacy

• Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.

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  Believe, People, Empowering

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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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  Stupid, Giving, Racist

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Don't let misery bring you down.

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  Misery

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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

  Thinking, Dresses, Accessories

  Source: www.pbs.org