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Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.

~Alicia Keys

Topics: Ability Also Big Blessings Clearly Curses Express Expressing Me Most Myself Paper Pen Put Times Up Verbally Wall Your

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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 colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

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Topics: Able America Any Background Black Broad Colour Cultures Different Different Cultures Even How Made Me Mixed Myself Person Regard Relate Seen Woman

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I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.

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Topics: Gone Jail Just Just As Much Know Love Loving Maybe Mean More Much People Stop Them You

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I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

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Topics: Dream Going Only Something Through Uncomfortable

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The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

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Topics: About Always Been Came Desire Dying Experience First Five Four Me Play Really Remember Sing Telling I Remember

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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.

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Topics: Alone Came Did Everything Grew Home Middle Morning Rode Streets Three Trains Up Walked I Came

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I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

~Alicia Keys

Topics: Act Also Classical Classical Music Definitely Different Fuse Give Idea Movies Music Other Perception Score Styles Want Would

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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.

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Topics: Almost Anybody Closer Dad Grandparents Her Left Like Maintained Married Mother Parents Relationship Steady Than Up Were World

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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 be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

~Alicia Keys

Topics: Able Am Any Belief Colour Ease Everywhere Fit Hang Hardest Just Most Proper Skin Worst I Am

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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 way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.

~Alicia Keys

Topics: Able Back Crazy Days Everyone Express Feel Fights Forth Going Her How Letters Mad Mother Myself Only Out See Storm Through Way Would Write Writing Younger I See I Feel I Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 25th, 1981

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