Alicia Keys Quotes - Page 3

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods.

The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.

Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.

My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.

I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

Love is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.

You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.

I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.

You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been.

Simplicity makes me happy.

How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself.

I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.

Why give up before we try?

Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next.

I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

You are what you listen to

I don't worry cause, everything's gonna be alright.

There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.