Alicia Keys

The way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that’s only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.

The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.

I always feel excited when I can do something that’s about what I believe in.

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

Sometimes, I want some damn makeup, and I’m going to wear it! Guess what — if I want to wear red lipstick and put eyelashes on, I can do whatever I f**king want. I am the creator of my own destiny,

You’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

I went to college on an art scholarship at the American Academy of Art, but the education comes from being passionate about objects, spaces, colors and the way they affect your senses.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

Over the years, I have again and again asked fellow believers in a free society how they managed to escape the contagion of their collectivist intellectual environment. No name has been mentioned more often as the source of enlightenment than Friedrich Hayek’s.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

College is part of the American Dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn’t deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he’d been able to go.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don’t want to be a master. When I’m learning something, I’m in my element.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

You must unlearn what you have learned.

School reports were always pretty bad. I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn’t try very hard.