Alicia Keys

I was subscribing to this sick identity. … Stay in your place, be feminine, be a lady, don’t make too much noise.

Once I became a mother I knew that I was strong, but not ready to do what I’m doing now

I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We’re capable of incredible things. At times that realization is frightening.

They say that every child learns from their mother – it’s ingrained from babyhood.

What I’m learning is that there is so much to unlearn.

My first instinct is great pride for all of us as women who are finding our voices.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

The best way out is always through.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

The most important thing in life is to love what you’re doing, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.

You’ve got to say, “I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it.” It’s called perseverance.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.

You are remembered for the rules you break.