Best 35 quotes of Angelique Kidjo on MyQuotes

Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

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.

I don't care about what people think about me.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

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.

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.

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

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.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

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

There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

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

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

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

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.