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I 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.

Alicia Keys

There’s something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.
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Beautiful Myself Powerful Unique
I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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Deserve Love Ourselves People Thinking
I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.
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Beautiful Love Marriage Myself Relationship Thinking Work
Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.
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Business Change Important Stand Yourself
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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Appearance Body Myself Shame
You can’t really compare people. That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
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Big Compare Lesson People Stop Yourself
I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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Fashion Life Live Myself
Falling down ain’t falling down, If you don’t cry when you hit the floor, It’s called the past cause I’m getting past, And I ain’t nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now.
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Cry Down Effort Fall Hard Time Myself See Struggle
Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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Goodness Myself World
I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.
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Drive Environment Myself Thinking Tough
Love me like you’ll never see me again.
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Love Myself Relationship See Yourself
You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn’t mean much without family.
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Family Rich World Yourself
I feel more like I’m a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.
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Chance Dangerous Different Direction Feeling Myself Offering Person Wings
I’ve stepped more into my womanhood, I’m a mother now, I’m having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
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Friendship Mom Myself Relationship Wife Woman
You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it’s not going to drive you.
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Care Drive Fire Identify Personal Yourself
I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.
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Change Confusion Greatness Life Myself Prayer Recognition

I 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 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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