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“As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.”

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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…

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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…

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What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.

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

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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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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…

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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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We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it…

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

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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…

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We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.

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I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that…

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I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-ideological blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of…

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