Alicia Keys

I’ve come into loving and understanding the feminine side of me. How powerful a woman and her femininity is… how strong, how graceful, how gorgeous, how beautiful. I love getting to know the many sides of myself. I embrace them all.

The memory of a day like today reminds me to hold the ones I love that much tighter, that much longer… Take that much more time to be present and to feel the blessing of another day…

Once I became a mother I knew that I was strong, but not ready to do what I’m doing now

One thing a lot of people don’t know about me is that I’m a driver… I love driving.. I’m driven.

I feel like….Music is the – it’s the answer. It’s the reason.

Have you watched Snow White lately? I get real funky about the classics; I don’t like (my sons) watching it. It’s totally sexist, misogynistic – she’s cleaning for seven dwarfs. There’s nothing wrong with a woman who chooses to stay at home with her family, it’s a hard-ass job, but it’s the way it’s spoken about.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Faith is one of the most effective tools in the human equipment. I believe that faith works.

Believe in something larger than yourself…get involved in the big ideas of your time.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.

I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.