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I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

Alicia Keys

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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Goodness Myself World
I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I’m able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I’m able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.
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Hard Myself Proper Skin Worst
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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Burn Learning Lesson Myself Return
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
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.
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Alive Audience Feeling Fuel Myself New Stage
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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Feeling Learning Myself Negative Power Presence Universal
Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it’s really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
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Brave Fear Myself Person Smart Vocabulary
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
Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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Art Creation Life Yourself
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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Energy Excitement Thinking Yourself
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 believe in the limitlessness of humans. We’re capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.
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Believe Capability Human Limitation Myself Realization Scare
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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Conversation Influence Music Myself People Place Thinking
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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Cruelty Important Proud Work Yourself
It’s karma, baby. And it goes around.
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Around Karma Spiritual
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.
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Deserve Myself Need People Prison Stop

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