Angelique Kidjo Quotes

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

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 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.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

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 care about what people think about me.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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