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

Topics: Heart, Brain, Weapons, Connecting

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Everyone wins when children - and especially girls â€“ 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.

Topics: Girl, Teacher, Children, Fulfilling Life, Access To Education

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

Topics: Country, Ability, Educated

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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Topics: Fall, Challenges, Important

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

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Topics: People, Ifs

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.

Topics: Skin Color, Skins, Care

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

Topics: Country, People, Political

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.

Topics: Dream, Hurt, Heart, Sync

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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Topics: Thinking, Proud, Define You

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

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Topics: Who I Am, Refuse, Knows

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

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Topics: Believe, People, Empowering

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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Topics: Community, Vision, World

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

Topics: Mean, Ideas, Perfect

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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Topics: Doors, Bridges, Music Love

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.

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Topics: Kids, Hard Times, Comfort

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

Topics: Differences, Together, Legacy, Human Family

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.

Topics: Rocks, Dna, Rock And Roll, Westerners

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.

Topics: Government, Politician, Make Sense

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

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Topics: People, Talk To Me, Mines

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

Topics: Skin Color, Skins, World, World Is Yours

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

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Topics: Victim, Manipulate, Ifs

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.

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Topics: Mirrors, Looks, Done

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.

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Topics: Color, Long, Challenges

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

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Topics: Fall, Stand For Something

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.

Topics: People, Challenges, Attention

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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Topics: Being Stupid

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

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Topics: Modern Music

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.

Topics: Business Card

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.

Topics: Great Musician

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.

Topics: Bash

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