I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.
ALICIA KEYSI think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.
ALICIA KEYSThere’s something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.
ALICIA KEYSYes 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.
ALICIA KEYSI 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.
ALICIA KEYSI’ve been able to find a lot of what I’ve not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It’s empowering to find those things.
ALICIA KEYSYou could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn’t mean much without family.
ALICIA KEYSYou 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.
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.
ALICIA KEYSI believe in the limitlessness of humans. We’re capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.
ALICIA KEYSWhy give up before we try?
ALICIA KEYSIt’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
ALICIA KEYSI don’t dream – only if I’m uncomfortable or I’m going through something.
ALICIA KEYSBusiness 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.
ALICIA KEYSI’m a very caring person.
ALICIA KEYSCreate the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
ALICIA KEYSThe desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
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