Alicia Keys

I feel like it’s by design that I’m raising boys, like there’s a reason. I don’t like my sons watching Snow White. It’s totally misogynistic

I never thought love could be so deep, so wide, so open, so full, so elevating! Such a teacher! Thank you for teaching me, growing me, deepening me!!

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

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

I want to make sure all the issues about race are addressed

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

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. A lady of my acquaintance said, I don’t care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.

To know fulfillment, nourish what is for the belly and not the eye.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Gazing to the south, from the eastern peak, the moon appears through the raindrops.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.

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

Pity the man who has a character to support – it is worse than a large family – he is silent poor indeed.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?