I know people who’ve gone to jail. It don’t mean you stop loving them! They deservin’ love just as much in there, and maybe they needin’ it more.
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.
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Simplicity makes me happy.
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I’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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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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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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I’d rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I’m not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.
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Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
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My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.
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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 don’t have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don’t have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
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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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Wait, I’m deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
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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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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
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I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.
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We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there’s nothing we can do.
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Love is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.
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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.
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Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.
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Why give up before we try?
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Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.
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I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.
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You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn’t mean much without family.
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There’s something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.
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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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My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.
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