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.
ALICIA KEYSThe 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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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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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.
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If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
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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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Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
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I don’t dream – only if I’m uncomfortable or I’m going through something.
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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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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.
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I’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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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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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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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.
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Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
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No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.
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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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I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I’m discovering who I am.
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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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I’d rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I’m not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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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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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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Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.
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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’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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I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.
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Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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