If the fastest growing population in this country is Latino, that means we are the future of this country. And, we have proven we have talent. Now we need the tools to succeed.
SHAKIRAI started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
More Shakira Quotes
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I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we’re made of.
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We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.
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I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
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I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
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It’s very difficult to think that you’re with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don’t know them: it turns out that they betray you. It’s painful, but it’s best to turn the page.
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Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.
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Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.
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I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
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I’m more afraid of marriage than death.
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My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.
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I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature.
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I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend’s children, but I don’t think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don’t have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.
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A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.
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I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I’m letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.
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Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.
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My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.
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What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it’s not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It’s a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It’s a very mental game.
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