Alicia Keys

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

I’m meant to be an artist who can stand on my own. That’s my place; that’s what I’m supposed to do.

The way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that’s only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.

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

Everyone deserves an equal chance at success.

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.

Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

For so many people, TV and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them. It becomes important for the world to see different images of each other, so that we can develop empathy and understanding.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.

For too long I have silenced my heart, that now, when I give it the opportunity to speak, it no longer remembers its voice. Locked away, it forgot what it’s like to be free; to roam. Imprisoned within loneliness, I fear Stockholm syndrome has developed.