Alicia Keys

Only a woman can breathe under the water of life defying gravity and staying zen while doing it.

I’m meant to be an artist who can stand on my own. That’s my place; that’s what I’m supposed to do.

Until we’re in those rooms as equally as men are, it can’t shift.

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

To all my goddesses in the world spreading love and light, power and radiance. Never stop being brilliant!!

We are a gorgeous, infinite circle of women all shades, all styles, in all the ways we were made. Inside of us everything blooms.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change thing I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

Nothing is black or white.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.