Top 180 Alicia Keys Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there’s so many things I’d love to talk about that I feel don’t get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it’s such a colorful world.”

— Alicia Keys

52. “I now see so clearly what escaped me then: It’s not that the ground underneath me was suddenly shifting; it’s that it is never still. That’s part of the work of my journey – getting comfortable with life’s groundlessness.”

— Alicia Keys

53. “I wouldn’t mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn’t sound so bad!”

— Alicia Keys

54. “Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.”

— Alicia Keys

55. “No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I’ll be waiting...”

— Alicia Keys

56. “Death is a gift meant to wake up the living, to nudge us toward a life of purpose and intention.”

— Alicia Keys

57. “I have big everything on the bottom, but I love my legs. You’ve got to love what’s yours.”

— Alicia Keys

58. “We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.”

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

60. “You just can’t take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that’s been instilled in me. And I don’t look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change.”

— Alicia Keys

61. “Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.”

— Alicia Keys

62. “He broke my heart, and now it’s raining, just to rub it in...”

— Alicia Keys

63. “Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.”

— Alicia Keys

64. “I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.”

— Alicia Keys

65. “Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can’t say I came prepared I’m suspended in the air Won’t you come be in the sky with me.”

— Alicia Keys

66. “In Metaphysics, Aristotle wrote that Egypt is the “cradle of mathematics – that is, the country of origin for Greek mathematics.” Some historians believe that when European societies eventually began enslaving Africans, they also started downplaying the major contributions of both the ancient Nile River Valley civilizations and the kemetic culture, as well as concealing its African lineage.”

— Alicia Keys

67. “There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.”

— Alicia Keys

68. “Even if your family isn’t quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.”

— Alicia Keys

69. “I’m definitely a nerd. I’m a cool-ass nerd, but I am definitely a nerd.”

— Alicia Keys

70. “I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.”

— Alicia Keys

71. “I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it’s so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it’s gorgeous.”

— Alicia Keys

72. “You’ve got to love what’s yours.”

— Alicia Keys

73. “My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that’s how I regard myself.”

— Alicia Keys

74. “My parents weren’t married. It wasn’t like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad’s mother is my nana, and I’m closer to her than almost anybody in this world.”

— Alicia Keys

75. “My mom is definitely my rock.”

— Alicia Keys

76. “I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.”

— Alicia Keys

77. “I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.”

— Alicia Keys

78. “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.”

— Alicia Keys

79. “My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.”

— Alicia Keys

80. “I’m discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I’m discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I’ve buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space.”

— Alicia Keys

81. “Every moment is beautiful; delicious even!”

— Alicia Keys

82. “I don’t know if I’d go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien’s vibe. I’m a vibe person.”

— Alicia Keys

83. “The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.”

— Alicia Keys

84. “I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.”

— Alicia Keys

85. “I’d rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I’m not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.”

— Alicia Keys

86. “Here’s my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.”

— Alicia Keys

87. “I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don’t really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.”

— Alicia Keys

88. “I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.”

— Alicia Keys

89. “It’s hard to pinpoint the precise moment when we internalize others’ assessments; it’s usually not just a single experience but rather a series of moments that bruise the spirit and lead us to distrust ourselves and those around us.”

— Alicia Keys

90. “Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.”

— Alicia Keys

91. “Keep dreaming in color And drawing your dreams On cement floors Until they are realized. – Alicia Keys.”

— Alicia Keys

92. “My mom always said, ‘Don’t date a guy who thinks he’s prettier than you.’”

— Alicia Keys

93. “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 why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.”

— Alicia Keys

94. “I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We’re capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.”

— Alicia Keys

95. “I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.”

— Alicia Keys

96. “The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that’s unstoppable. You can’t get through it, you know.”

— Alicia Keys

97. “And I love kick boxing. It’s a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.”

— Alicia Keys

98. “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 in this crazy world – that’s why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.”

— Alicia Keys

99. “People don’t expect me to be as funny as I am.”

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100. “I’ve always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I’d make a decision – what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity – I’d consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager.”

— Alicia Keys