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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.

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

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

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

I'm honoured when Africa recognises me

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

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

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

What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Don't let misery bring you down.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.