83 Quotes by Angelique Kidjo

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.