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I'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way.

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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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Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.
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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.
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Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.
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Simplicity makes me happy.
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We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.
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Every moment is beautiful delicious even! Every moment I'm learning and living in a way I never have before. Being present in a way I never have before. Existing in moments I never have before.
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There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for.
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I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.
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I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.
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