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My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
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Poet
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Singer-Songwriter
Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
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Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.
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Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.
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How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day.
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Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
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There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.
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I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.
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At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.
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I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
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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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Moments are so fleeting I want to hold on to the good ones.
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The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.
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I feel alive in quiet moments with my son, riding our bikes or watching him line his trains up in a particular order, witnessing how his mind works, hearing him learn a new word. I'm alive in these special moments because I never knew a love like this.
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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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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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Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.
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A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.
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Right now 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.
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I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.
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It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.
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