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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More Alicia Keys Quotes
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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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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.
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Wait, I’m deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
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How you look is your statement, because it’s a claiming of yourself.
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I’m committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I’ve also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.
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Business 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.
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Prayer keeps me centered.
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Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.
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I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.
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Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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Good 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.
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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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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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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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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
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