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.

Angelique Kidjo

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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

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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.

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You can fall, but you can rise also.

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

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