Angelique Quotes & Sayings

Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally. — Dawn Angelique

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. — Angelique Kidjo

For me, from the point of view of my life, I've been impacted by women that taught me that, as a woman, my body is a sanctuary, that whoever I invite in my body, I have to be clear in that invitation. — Angelique Kidjo

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. — Angelique Kidjo

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

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

I don't care about what people think about me. — Angelique Kidjo

We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message. — Dawn Angelique

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. — Angelique Kidjo

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

My love, my passion, is boundless, for my mate." In — Angelique Anjou

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 violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead. — Angelique Kidjo

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice. — Dawn Angelique

Down the street, tree branches strung in purple Halloween lights began to shudder and sway. Dusty whirlwinds rose from the ground, and from the north came a great rush of wind.
From Congo Square, she thought. Where the slaves danced and sang.
"...and St. Louis Cemetery," whispered in her ear.
The wind blew as cold as the icy breath of Lake Superior. Blowing veins seizured round the wrought iron gate. Yet the music continued. The only one oblivious to the sudden shift in the air--as if she were expecting it--was Angelique, who continued her dance, face to the sky. As though nothing had changed, though everything had. — Eve Wallinga

I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak. — Dawn Angelique

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage. — Angelique Kidjo

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners. — Dawn Angelique

The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa. — Angelique Kidjo

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

Patches are a nun's jewels. — Marie Angelique Arnauld

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

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. — Angelique Kidjo

I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some way, then don't disrespect what they created. — Dawn Angelique

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. — Angelique Kidjo

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. — Angelique Kidjo

Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that. — Dawn Angelique

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. — Angelique Kidjo

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

Yield all and trust all. — Marie Angelique Arnauld

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

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

Angelique, my dear child, love is not what heals us. Love is what burns us. And in you the flame burns pure and hot. — Anne Golon

While you may be every man's fantasy.......... to me....... you just might be every best part of every dream I have ever had.......

Beautiful evening to you gorgeous
-Ken — Angelique St. Chase Jr.

I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am. — Angelique Kidjo

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

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

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. — Angelique Kidjo

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. — Angelique Kidjo

There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent. — Angelique Kidjo

I'm honoured when Africa recognises me — Angelique Kidjo

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. — Angelique Kidjo

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. — Angelique Kidjo

I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent. — Dawn Angelique

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

There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. — Dawn Angelique

I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body. — Dawn Angelique

He can't understand that what I've done was to ensure his safety. He thinks I'm a monster. A burden that he has to endure. A danger to the family. He wants nothing to do with me and avoids me. When he can't avoid me he has a look in his eye that I know well, and the look says, 'Why won't she die? Why won't she just die?' I'm like that room upstairs; he just wants to close the door and forget any of it happened. He wants to close the door so eventually, like our mother, I'll become the beautiful woman that died too young and nothing more. All my sins will be forgotten and hidden, locked away never to be spoken of again — Angelique Jones

Towards the end of 'Dark Shadows,' the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. The fact that she breaks apart physically as well as mentally lends an added dimension, and I just loved playing that. — Eva Green

Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political. — Dawn Angelique

Don't let misery bring you down. — Angelique Kidjo

If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there. — Angelique Kidjo

I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again. — Dawn Angelique

I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down. — Angelique Kidjo

The same people neglecting and hating are the ones going through issues in their own lives, and they're scared to face that. — Dawn Angelique

My stories are a window into my heart....they emmulate the same happiness, pain, fear, sorrow that I was feeling when the storie was conceived... — Angelique LaFontaine

Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you. — Angelique Kidjo

The only person who can confine you is yourself. — Dawn Angelique

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid. — Angelique Kidjo

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. — Angelique Kidjo

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. — Angelique Kidjo

I always thought music was open to all things. — Dawn Angelique

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child. — Dawn Angelique

Give all the credit in the world to Angelique Kerber - great, great talent. She's been in the top 10 for the last four years, and she's one of those players that just really had a difficult time, when the chips were on the table, to kind of bring them over. And this time, she did it. I'm really happy for her because these chances don't come for these other players. Serena Williams has got 21 grand slam champions. Angelique Kerber was in her first final. — Howard Bryant

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies. — Dawn Angelique

I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I didn't want to make an album where the single was so popular that you overlook the whole record. So three parts felt right - it's a number that can't be divided into. — Dawn Angelique

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. — Angelique Kidjo

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. — Angelique Kidjo

Soeur Seraphina gently removed my lace fontanges. It was named for the King's mistress Angelique de Fontanges, who had lost her hat while hunting one day and had hastily tied up her curls with her garter. The King had admired the effect, and the next day all the court ladies had appeared with their curls tied back with lace — Kate Forsyth

You can fall, but you can rise also. — Angelique Kidjo

As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems. — Angelique Kidjo

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them. — Angelique Kidjo

Remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous. — Marie Angelique Arnauld

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything. — Angelique Kidjo

It's frustrating when you feel like you have a message to get out and people just judge you regardless. — Dawn Angelique

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual. — Dawn Angelique

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me. — Angelique Kidjo

When you love a child, you change the world! — Angelique La Fon-Cox

Angelique, with both hands open, lying limply on her knees, was giving herself. And Felicien remembered the evening on which she had run barefoot through the grass, so adorable that he had pursued her, and whispered in her ear, "I love you". And he understood full well that only now had she replied, with the same cry, "I love you." And he understood full well that only now had she replied, with the same cry, "I love you", the eternal cry that had finally emerged from her wide-open heart. "I love you... Take me, carry me away, I am yours. — Emile Zola

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

I am an author! To read me is to know me. — Angelique St. Chase Jr.

Music is joy and sorrow, celebration and loss. healing and pain, bondage and freedom. Whatever you are... music is. — Angelique La Fon-Cox

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. — Angelique Kidjo

I . . . what do you mean? I don't know any Angelique."
Catherine stared at him in surprise. "Why, Garren, of course you know Angelique, the clerk in my shop in Whitehall?"
Garren planted both hands on the table and pushed to his feet. "Let's go. This is a waste of time." "It says . . ." The seer frowned, as if trying to make out a hazy script.
"It says, 'I'm not going to sleep with you anymore, you faithless bastard. — Cinda Williams Chima

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

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