When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.
ALICIA KEYSI grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
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I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.
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I’m very happy with my body.
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I’d rather not have anything than be a liar.
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Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.
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It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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I’m a very caring person.
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
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I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it’s hard to hear sometimes, because it’s a noisy world and there’s a lot of people talking to you.
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Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.
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It’s karma, baby. And it goes around.
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I don’t worry cause, everything’s gonna be alright.
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I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.
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At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn’t even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.
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I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
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Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned…another lesson learned.
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