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Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
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Poet
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Harlem
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Alicia J. Augello Cook
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