Alicia Keys

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

Only a woman can breathe under the water of life defying gravity and staying zen while doing it.

How incredible our ancestors were. The first astrophysicists, scientists, physicians, mathematicians, architects, creators of so much of the world as we know it. It’s a blessing to know what cloth you’re cut from!

Kindness, love, strength and determination personified!! Madiba reminds me that everything is possible!

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

I’m definitely a feminist. I’m f*cking disgusted by the way women are still treated.

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 guess that maybe breasts are the most important part of the body when you think about it, I mean without them employers just wouldn’t know who to give the smaller paychecks to.

I never identified with the feminist movement in a strong way. I just kind of lived it. I didn’t politicize it. I didn’t follow any written rules to what it meant to be a feminist. I had my own sense of what was right and wrong.

[on her mother] she’s a very smart, independent woman who was kind of coming into her own in the feminist movement of the 70s and 80s

I have tremendous respect for women.

If you’re someone who genuinely believes that women don’t deserve or aren’t as much as men, you’re like the plague. On the big history chart, you’re the plague … it’s just pointless and deadly.

The argument that ‘boys will be boys’ actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behaviors from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can’t control their bodies.

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

As I grow and I get older I’m realising more and more that there’s such a beautiful, sensual power that we have as women.

Today, be the basass girl you were too lazy to be yesterday.

The women that inspire me, to be honest, are the women that struggle.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove they are worthy of a woman’s attention.

You’’re a feminist if you go to a Jay-Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’’re NOT like, ‘mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should be making 23 percent less money than Jay-Z.’