It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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 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 think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.
ALICIA KEYSI’d rather not have anything than be a liar.
ALICIA KEYSGood food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love it’s: Wow, life is good.
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 KEYSEverything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.
ALICIA KEYSI’ve stepped more into my womanhood, I’m a mother now, I’m having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
ALICIA KEYSEmpower us women and we will change this whole entire world.
ALICIA KEYSFalling 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.
ALICIA KEYSEarly 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.
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 KEYSFear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it’s really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
ALICIA KEYSHow you look is your statement, because it’s a claiming of yourself.
ALICIA KEYSLove is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.
ALICIA KEYSLove me like you’ll never see me again.
ALICIA KEYS