Alicia Keys

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

Love is real, love is pure, you only take what you give and give what you take. At its purest it is real. No pretending.

Everyone deserves an equal chance at success.

I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

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

Musicians have a really big part to play in spreading messages because they’re able to reach a large portion of people on an emotional level. Artists reach people at their heart; it’s the only time we meet in one place and put our differences aside. When you’re in a forum listening to music, all you feel in that moment is love and the understanding.

Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

It’s better not to argue with women.

I do have a relationship [with Putin] and I can tell you he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today

Half of Republicans deny that global warming is taking place, while 70% say that whether it is or not, humans are not responsible. Such figures would be shocking anywhere, but are remarkably so in a developed country with unparalleled resources and easy access to information.

The Obama campaign greatly impressed the public relations industry, which named Obama ‘Advertising Age’s marketer of the year for 2008,’ easily beating out Apple computers. A good predictor of the elections a few weeks later. The industry’s regular task is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices, thus undermining markets as they are conceptualized in economic theory, but benefiting the masters of the economy. And it recognizes the benefits of undermining democracy in much the same way, creating uninformed voters who make often irrational choices between the factions of the business party that amass sufficient support from concentrated private capital to enter the electoral arena, then to dominate campaign propaganda.

What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.

So the indigenous population of what’s now the United States was ‘exterminated’, to use the word that the founding fathers used. Not totally, but that was what was considered the right thing to do. They replaced them and it became a kind of settler state, not an imperial state.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.

You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.

I think it’s fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

It’s Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.