Angelique Kidjo Quotes

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• Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Inspirational, Heart, Brain

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

  Angelique Kidjo

  Country, Ability, Educated

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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.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Fall, Challenges, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

  Angelique Kidjo

  People, Ifs

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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.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Skin Color, Skins, Care

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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.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Dream, Hurt, Heart

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• You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Fall, Stand For Something

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Country, People, Political

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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.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Thinking, Proud, Define You

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can fall, but you can rise also.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Happiness, Moving On, Success

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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

  Girl, Teacher, Children

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

  Angelique Kidjo

  Believe, People, Empowering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Community, Vision, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Who I Am, Refuse, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Mean, Ideas, Perfect

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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.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Doors, Bridges, Music Love

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Differences, Together, Legacy

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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

  Kids, Hard Times, Comfort

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Rocks, Dna, Rock And Roll

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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

  Government, Politician, Make Sense

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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

  Color, Long, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Angelique Kidjo

  Skin Color, Skins, World

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• Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Victim, Manipulate, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Mirrors, Looks, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Fate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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