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Why give up before we try?

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
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Composer
Musician
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Poet
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Singer-Songwriter
Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
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There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.
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Quiet moments recharge me.
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I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone that was what I did.
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