Alicia Keys

Have you watched Snow White lately? I get real funky about the classics; I don’t like (my sons) watching it. It’s totally sexist, misogynistic – she’s cleaning for seven dwarfs. There’s nothing wrong with a woman who chooses to stay at home with her family, it’s a hard-ass job, but it’s the way it’s spoken about.

The memory of a day like today reminds me to hold the ones I love that much tighter, that much longer… Take that much more time to be present and to feel the blessing of another day…

My wish for us all is to love and adore ourselves just as much as we do everyone else!

New artists can own their content and completely build their base and their following without having to sell or be owned by anybody and it creates such a diversity.

I don’t want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing.

I’m open and ready to go to the next place, the next level, the next height.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it’s a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.