"can say that this is the sixth or seventh time I have seen Zeynab on stage and I still have the same emotion, I still have the same satisfaction, Zeynab has once again offered us a quality show today."

"So the Guèlèdè and the Bolodjo, we'll say that it's the very pillar of my career at the moment because at the beginning I learned to know my culture and now I started to sell it. I started to represent it more and more and each time you saw, when the Guèlèdè came out, you saw how everyone was in turmoil."

"At the moment, no, I'm not yet qualified because you either have to qualify through my direct performances, my performances, or by being well ranked in the rankings. For the moment, I haven't yet had a great performance that will qualify me. And in the rankings, I'm not yet qualified. It would be following my various competitions that will mean that in the rankings, I'll be ranked much higher. So at the moment, no, Odile is not qualified. I'm on the right track in any case to be qualified."

"Yeah, I think so. You know that at some point in sports, you have to stop even if you don't want to. You have to know how to go through the front door rather than the back door. Afterwards, you have to put the right things in place so that it looks what it should. But I'm not ready to retire yet. As soon as I see that I have to stop, I'll do it. But I'm already"

"I can't pinpoint exactly when I started. It's been a long time since I started performing on stage."

"I started the adventure with my church's group "The Messengers." I was the one who formed them before we started taking to the stage and performing. This goes back to the 1980s. Long before that, we used to celebrate a festival at our church. On this occasion, I would put together theater troupes, and we would perform to entertain people."

"I didn't learn it from anyone. In fact, in my childhood, I was a turbulent and restless girl, and my mother was also an actress."

"Making people laugh is an art, but doing it with ease and honesty, especially when it is to relate social facts and to educate an entire people, at the same time, is a gift that Mémé Marcelline Akinocho Aboh, a Beninese actress, has been able to exploit.."

"My book focuses on racism, a subject that concerns both women and men. It is aimed at a broader audience than just women. The injustices suffered by women may be partly the subject of my next work.But I think that rather than complaining, women would do better to learn how to defend themselves effectively, and for that, they need to study and better understand men, their weaknesses, their aspirations—in short, what goes on in men's heads."

"Racism is not inevitable. One only has to take the case of the United States of America, the history of this country, the Civil War, the abolition of slavery... The case of the United States is very significant for the history of racism and racial segregation. Martin Luther King fought and many other Black people still do...The Kuklux Klan existed and still exists, but over the years, it is losing ground although some Black Americans continue to be victims of racism. The struggle continues. We have known Black American ambassadors...For me, all this symbolizes in some way the decline of racism, a little more than just a glimmer of hope. Who knows how long it will take for South Africa to resemble New York where today, Whites and Blacks rub shoulders, mixing indifferently?."

"As a feminist, I am not gentle with women who rely on a man to make them happy. I am talking about those, illiterate or not, who take their body for a commodity to be sold and naturally do not stop powdering and dusting their body so that the commodity is presentable to the man who wants to attribute some value to it and buy it."

"Yeah, I'm motivated. Because first of all, I play high-level sport. I don't want to disappoint my parents, who gave me the opportunity to do it, nor my country, nor my coach, who has been training me for 10 years, nor my staff. I know there are teams that follow me and encourage me. So this is my way of saying thank you. That's where I draw my determination."

"The Olympic scholarship is always welcome. You know this well, or perhaps less so, but in France, life is much more expensive. This means that the Olympic scholarship doesn't cover all my expenses, but a large part nonetheless. Yes, the Olympic scholarship is important for my preparation, but it's not enough. It's still a significant part."

"Ses intrigues de grands déballages, sanctionnent, rectifient, enseignent, éduquent... En cela, Barbara AKPLOGAN mérite l’admiration de son lectorat. (Her plots of great revelations sanction, rectify, teach, educate... In this, Barbara AKPLOGAN deserves the admiration of her readership.)"

"La prière nourrit notre âme! (Prayer nourishes our soul.)"

"... lorsque je me retrouve face au public et que je déclame mes poèmes, j’aime que ça touche les âmes et que ça leur procure un certain plaisir. Je me sens très épanouie sur scène. (...when I find myself in front of the public and I recite my poems, I like that it touches souls and gives them a certain pleasure. Onstage, I feel very flourishing. )"

"Le poète, c'est celui qui invente son monde et qui peint le monde de la manière dont il voudrait qu'il soit. ("The poet is someone one who invents his own world and who paints the world in the way he would like it to be.")"

"Je partage l'idylle qu'adolescente ressent à ce jeune âge; les premières amours, les premières joies et les premières déceptions (I share the idyll that a teenager feels at this young age; the first loves, the first joys and the first disappointments.)"