Alicia Keys

One thing a lot of people don’t know about me is that I’m a driver… I love driving.. I’m driven.

Have you watched Snow White lately? I get real funky about the classics; I don’t like (my sons) watching it. It’s totally sexist, misogynistic – she’s cleaning for seven dwarfs. There’s nothing wrong with a woman who chooses to stay at home with her family, it’s a hard-ass job, but it’s the way it’s spoken about.

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.

I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!

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

When you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

Amuse not thy self therefore with the numerous Opinions of the World, nor value thy self upon verbal Orthodoxy, Philosophy, or thy Skill in Tongues, or Knowledge of the Fathers; (too much the Business and Vanity of the World). But in this rejoyce, That thou knowest God, that is the Lord, who exerciseth loving Kindness, and Judgment; and Righteousness in the Earth.

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

The soul’s emphasis is always right.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

To delay justice, is injustice.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.