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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.

Alicia Keys

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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Drugs Growth Myself Tough Young
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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Guidance Moments Myself Performance Prayer Sleep
Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
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Live Love Struggle Yourself
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
Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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Art Creation Life Yourself
We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
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Boredom Change Happiness Myself Stay
Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.
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Love Myself Relationship Strong
Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.
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Goodness Hold Moments Myself Time
Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
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Creation Opportunity 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 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
I’m very happy with my body.
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Acceptance Body Happiness Myself Self Love
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
Simplicity makes me happy.
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Happiness Myself Simplicity
Prayer keeps me centered.
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Center Myself Prayer
I’ve always expressed myself best through writing. I’ve gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.
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Deep Expression Feeling Myself Remember
If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
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Fact Feeling Handle Myself Situation
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
Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.
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Acceptance Love People Regard
You’ve got to love what’s yours.
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Love Yourself
Even if your family isn’t quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.
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Family People Quite Support Yourself
I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.
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Believe Feeling Fulfill Powerful Soul Way Yourself
Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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Goodness Myself World
Early 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.
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Career Experience Learning Myself Protection Thinking
At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn’t even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.
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Day End Focus Myself Positive Value
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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Family Friendship Greatness Huge Myself
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

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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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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