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" I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color. "

Jidenna

Color

White

She

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Jidenna

Culture

Feel

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Jidenna

Purpose

Strong

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Jidenna

Know

Myself

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" If we can believe in our own value, then we won't try to denigrate and diss and just roast women all the time. "

" My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father who gave me this name and who taught me countless parables, proverbs, and principles that made me the man I am today. "

" Most of the suits I try to wear are bespoke. "