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Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys I’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 KeysAlicia Keys I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys There’s something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn’t mean much without family.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys I’m very happy with my body.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys 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.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys I’d rather not have anything than be a liar.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can’t fail.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys 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.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys 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.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I’m discovering who I am.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys 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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My heart keeps room for you always even when you can’t be here.
Holly DuxburyHolly Duxbury You are seeing humanity at its worst and best. A collision of the circumstance.
Samantha King HolmesSamantha King Holmes Treat her like a dream. Follow her, pursue her, and always remind her that you’ll never give up on her.
Jenny AJenny A I care but I’m done trying. I love but I’m done showing.
Divya khandalDivya khandal Never feel defined by your size, measures, and beauty standards.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson The wild is always changing like a reminder. You do not have to be the same to be beautiful.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Bees and butterflies in my belly with you on my mind they chase each other around.
Jenny WinbladhJenny Winbladh I long for you but you long for someone else, I deny the one who wants me cause I want someone else.
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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
Richard WrightRichard Wright Madness isn’t necessarily a negative thing, it can be a positive thing. You know, hearing them cry for you, if you have children, is a great thing, it’s your child.
Barry KerchBarry Kerch Stop crying. You’re giving archangels everywhere a bad name.” patch to pepper
Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
Bram StokerBram Stoker There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
Waylon JenningsWaylon Jennings Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.
Jean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel Basquiat
