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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
Art Collector
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Poet
Presenter
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
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Moments are so fleeting I want to hold on to the good ones.
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You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.
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It's karma, baby. And it goes around.
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I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.
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With each new day, I'm learning how to take control in order to have balance in my life. I plan time for myself and my loved ones and take it.
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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've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.
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There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.
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Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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People don't expect me to be as funny as I am.
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You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn't mean much without family.
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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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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.
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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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I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
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I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was good for my career, whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.
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It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
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