Able Quotes by Alicia Keys

9 Able quotes by Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys provides nine brief musings on ability, weaving musical metaphor with everyday resolve. Her tone feels warm yet determined, giving readers a quick taste of how she frames personal power.

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I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.

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The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural…

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I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and…

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My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed…

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I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details…

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To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten…

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When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only…

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Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to…

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I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I…

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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

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I like to incorporate classical songs that people know and throw a beat and some guitars on it to make it real crazy. It's…

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I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

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There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's…

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I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding,…

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I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.

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I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

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There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

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I'm definitely a nerd. I'm a cool-ass nerd, but I am definitely a nerd.

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I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my…

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He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in...

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My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'

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All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to…

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Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's…

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