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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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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
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Alicia J. Augello Cook
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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.
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I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.
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Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.
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I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.
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Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.
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Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.
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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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