Alicia Keys

Everyone deserves an equal chance at success.

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

Only a woman can breathe under the water of life defying gravity and staying zen while doing it.

We think – or maybe we’re shown – that the only way to express ourselves is through that very sexy energy. I think there’s more than that which shows our power. For me, I sometimes feel the most sexy when I’m totally covered head to toe.

I feel as a culture we are ready to look at the truth and address it head on. I think it’s the power of how connected we all are with the digital revolution – there’s no where you can go without seeing the truth. Although it’s upsetting because we can’t believe at this day and age at this time it’s still that blatantly injustice in the world. I think it’s very empowering to do something about it and that’s the reason why I create the We Are Here movement out of my frustration about the apathy in society.

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.

God has no religion.

Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.

Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most the worlds problems.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.