Alicia Keys

A great song can pull me out of a slump and lighten my heart.

[on Serena Williams] You are THE epitome of grace and prowess!!! You are an inspiration to all of us. Your purpose to be a leader and a light is a gift to the world!! We love you and thank you for sharing your greatness and spirit!

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

It’s my nature to downplay.

I feel like….Music is the – it’s the answer. It’s the reason.

We think – or maybe we’re shown – that the only way to express ourselves is through that very sexy energy. I think there’s more than that which shows our power. For me, I sometimes feel the most sexy when I’m totally covered head to toe.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Sometimes I feel like a kid wanting nothing more than to squeeze you tight and call you mine.

You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.

When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

My heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.

The best thing that’s ever happened to me is still happening.

My love rumbles like the sternum of a lion. Be mindful of the beast you stir up.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.