Angelique Kidjo Quotations

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Don't let misery bring you down.

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