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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.

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
Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.
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Acceptance Love People Regard
Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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Goodness Myself World
Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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Experience Liberty Maturity Myself
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
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Death Love Myself Play
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
Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.
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Feeling Journey Myself Need Writing
It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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Afraid Potential Reach Worry Yourself
You’ve got to love what’s yours.
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Love 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
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It’s a very moody key, and also ‘A’ is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
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Eyes Keys Name Oneself Play Representation Time
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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Death Desire Experience Myself Play
Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.
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Goodness Hold Moments Myself Time
Quiet moments recharge me.
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Moments Myself Quiet Recharge
I don’t dream – only if I’m uncomfortable or I’m going through something.
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Comfortable Dreams Myself Thinking
If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
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Different Each Other Empathy Learning Time
I’m a very caring person.
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Care Myself Person
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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Break Heart Love Need Suffering Unity
Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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Fly Need Order Start Time Yourself
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
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
Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.
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Change Empowerment Woman World
There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
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Determination Follow Myself Path
All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!
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Attitude Myself Natural Woman
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there’s nothing we can do.
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Conflict Help People Potential Poverty Thinking
I’m very happy with my body.
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Acceptance Body Happiness Myself Self Love
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

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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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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