Top 180 Alicia Keys Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.”

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

56. “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

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

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

61. “An aha moment is not a happy ending – it’s an open doorway, one you have to choose to walk through.”

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

63. “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

64. “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

65. “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

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

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

69. “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

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “My mom is definitely my rock.”

— Alicia Keys

74. “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

75. “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

76. “Nothing but uncertainty is certain. Circumstances come together, only to fall apart moments or months later. And then, in a flash, we must rise up and regain our footing. In the rearview mirror, 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

77. “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

78. “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

79. “I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.”

— 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. “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

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

— Alicia Keys

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

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

— Alicia Keys

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

— 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. “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

90. “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

91. “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

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

— Alicia Keys

93. “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

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

— Alicia Keys

95. “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

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

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

— Alicia Keys

99. “I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.”

— Alicia Keys

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