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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
Art Collector
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Musician
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Poet
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Singer-Songwriter
Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
Simplicity
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I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, Are you doing shows? I've just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, You lucky girl.
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
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My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.
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I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager.
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I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
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If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
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I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.
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I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.
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I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.
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Love me like you'll never see me again.
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I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
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Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.
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My son makes me super giddy, especially when he laughs. His laugh makes me laugh like a maniac!
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