Falling 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 KEYSIf we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
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No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.
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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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The 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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Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
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Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.
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I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it’s hard to hear sometimes, because it’s a noisy world and there’s a lot of people talking to you.
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Love is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.
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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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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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If you treat me fairly, I’ll give you all my goods.
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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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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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Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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