Nneka Quotes

#1. I was a very conscientious student.

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#2. I must be true to myself within my music or I would be a liar.

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#3. The way people see Africa is mostly dark.

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#4. I always like earthy, authentic sounds.

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#5. My music is very versatile, very mixed.

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#6. Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.

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#7. An animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of those thousand years. Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#8. I am 100% there when I'm doing what I'm doing when I'm onstage and recording. I don't ever want to look back at any moment and say to myself that I felt uncomfortable with who I am.

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#9. I tend to explain my songs.

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#10. I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

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#11. In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.

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#12. I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

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#13. There is always something new coming out of Africa.

Aristotle.

#14. I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

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#15. I eat stickers all the time dude!

Charlie Day

#16. Take advantage of educating yourself.

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#17. My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

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#18. If you're able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you're able to tackle anything around the world because you're able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I'm concerned.

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#19. When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him hollowed out, relieved of her better parts.

Lesley Nneka Arimah

#20. Everything that the West is today is predominantly because of Africa.

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#21. I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we see each other, we won't move forward.

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#22. In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!

Vivienne Westwood

#23. You can live a lifetime in two years.

Richelle Mead

#24. My father is a very strict man.

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#25. There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.

James Dobson

#26. People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.

Sathya Sai Baba

#27. I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

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#28. The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.

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