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Celeb News: Alicia Keys SPEAKS OUT about shade and negativity
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Alicia Keys SPEAKS OUT about shade and negativity
02.11.2011
I was watching this amazing show on Oprah's OWN network called "Master Class" with one of my all time favorite women in the world, Maya Angelou. (Wow! This show is good!)
First, I was thinking about what a GIFT a moment like that is, where you actually get to spend time with and hear the knowledge of someone as special and genius as Dr. Angelou... but I digress.
Then she started talking about words and their power. How words can get into your clothes, into your hair, creep inside the walls, until they start to be all over you and make you who you are. And that is why, she said, we must watch the words we speak and watch the words we allow to be spoken around us.
This struck me SO deeply because I am SUCH a believer in Word Power: the power that words have, both negatively and positively.
Because of this power, I always try to choose mine carefully. I think about how often people gossip about other people, and how everyone feeds on it like carnivores and then walk away, still feeling negative. Some people might rationalize that if they weren't the ones originating the gossip, than they had nothing to do with it. But what does it do to you, listening for a hour to a really nasty and judgmental conversation about someone, who’s just another human being, struggling in their lives like everyone else? Have you ever thought about that? Thought about the residue it leaves on you?
My friend, author and adviser, Linda Brierty, often speaks to this and I really feel and appreciate her thoughts. She always says, "Compassion is the key."
When you choose compassion, it washes away all the dark and dirty things that get stuck in our clothes, in our hair and inside our walls, negative things that make us less than the special, light-giving people we can be.
So, turn away from the dark and turn on your light, and just watch how many people you can affect - in a positive way. And if you think about it, that's a simple way to change the world. Or at the very least, YOUR world!
It's amazing the power we have within. So simple, yet so strong!
Here's to loving yourself enough!
With compassion,
AK
http://www.aliciakeys.com/us/news/al...log-word-power
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Alicia is one of the niciest celebrities out there, i only wish her the best in life
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She's still a homewrecker.
Period. point. blank. There's no way around it.
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Originally posted by Barbarella
She's still a homewrecker.
Period. point. blank. There's no way around it.
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So what?
Every artist has a fault.
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Can some PLEASE tell me what she did? Why and how is she a homewrecker, I read this a hell of a lot around different Music Blogs and sites.
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Preach, Alicia.
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Originally posted by Barbarella
She's still a homewrecker.
Period. point. blank. There's no way around it.
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 That's irrelevant to the thread.
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I wonder what would she say about Yahh's shade to Britney 
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Originally posted by Rîh.røx.
So what?
Every artist has a fault.
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That's a mighty big fault. 
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Originally posted by Shy Boy
Preach, Alicia. |
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Originally posted by Chemist
I wonder what would she say about Yahh's shade to Britney |
What shade?
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Originally posted by fabian_phipps
Can some PLEASE tell me what she did? Why and how is she a homewrecker, I read this a hell of a lot around different Music Blogs and sites.
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Her current husband, Swizz Beatz was still legally married when they started dating. But we're off that. She's happily married & has a beautiful baby boy now 
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Originally posted by Chemist
I wonder what would she say about Yahh's shade to Britney |
Lol...
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Originally posted by Yahhh!
So, turn away from the dark and turn on your light, and just watch how many people you can affect - in a positive way. And if you think about it, that's a simple way to change the world. Or at the very least, YOUR world!
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So Yahhh! are you gonna follow her words and stop shading Christina
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Originally posted by Chemist
I wonder what would she say about Yahh's shade to Britney |
It's almost been an hour since I read Alicia's blog and I haven't thrown any shade since. Don't make me start.
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Originally posted by Reeces
So Yahhh! are you gonna follow her words and stop shading Christina |
The only words I follow are those of Jesus Christ, my Lord and saviour. Alicia's words are nice though.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Barbarella
She's still a homewrecker.
Period. point. blank. There's no way around it.
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Originally posted by Rîh.røx.
So what?
Every artist has a fault.
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Not one that destroys families.
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Originally posted by fabian_phipps
Can some PLEASE tell me what she did? Why and how is she a homewrecker, I read this a hell of a lot around different Music Blogs and sites.
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In a nutshell, she ****ed Swizz Beatz behind his wife's back.
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She is incredible 
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Originally posted by PopBoi
In a nutshell, she ****ed Swizz Beatz behind his wife's back.
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Originally posted by Barbarella
She's still a homewrecker.
Period. point. blank. There's no way around it.
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Originally posted by Radio Phone
That's a mighty big fault. |
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Originally posted by PopBoi
Not one that destroys families.
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Originally posted by PopBoi
In a nutshell, she ****ed Swizz Beatz behind his wife's back.
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:smh: I can't at you all acting like you know exactly what happened... Like you were there... and like Alicia stole YOUR husbands away... 
My dad and stepmom are still legally married, but they've been separated for years and each have a new romantic interest in their life. Alicia and Swizz being together doesn't make Alicia a homewrecker... as if she's the reason Swizz's previous marriage failed? Come on now... Don't play it like you were there. That incident has NOTHING to do with Alicia's post, so to bring it up in the first place is ridiculous.
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Originally posted by ExtraChapstick
:smh: I can't at you all acting like you know exactly what happened... Like you were there... and like Alicia stole YOUR husbands away...
My dad and stepmom are still legally married, but they've been separated for years and each have a new romantic interest in their life. Alicia and Swizz being together doesn't make Alicia a homewrecker... as if she's the reason Swizz's previous marriage failed? Come on now... Don't play it like you were there. That incident has NOTHING to do with Alicia's post, so to bring it up in the first place is ridiculous. |
No. Mashonda made it clear that her and Swizz Beatz were still together, living in the same house, when Alicia and Swizz were fooling around. That would make Alicia a homewrecker. But I don't think she should be condemned because it takes two to tangle, we don't know the whole story and it's really not any of our business.
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