Alicia Keys

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

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

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

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.

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

Once I became a mother I knew that I was strong, but not ready to do what I’m doing now

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Consequences are unpitying.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.