Alicia Keys

We are a gorgeous, infinite circle of women all shades, all styles, in all the ways we were made. Inside of us everything blooms.

I want my sons to grow up in a world where they’d never think boys are better than girls or that black is better than white.

What I learned the most from Prince was putting art first, being creatively ambitious, and putting creativity at the forefront of what I do.

On my album Here, that’s the first time that I’ve really understood how I could put all the things that were happening in the world and in my life and in our lives as just human beings into one body that was just so powerful and really had a perspective. That was an opening for me and I think that naturally, there is just so much to talk about. I don’t see me getting quiet anytime soon.

How incredible our ancestors were. The first astrophysicists, scientists, physicians, mathematicians, architects, creators of so much of the world as we know it. It’s a blessing to know what cloth you’re cut from!

You’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

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.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.

Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!

Buddhist practice is simply a system directed to the one end of lessening the suffering of life.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.