Alicia Keys

As I grow and I get older I’m realising more and more that there’s such a beautiful, sensual power that we have as women.

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 constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!

[on Prince] I learned about music that didn’t have any barriers or any kind of, like, containment. I learned about wild, crazy topics and ways to express yourself that had never been written in quite that way before. I learned that a human being could be able to defy all stereotypes, and be the epitome of badassness.

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 you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.