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I learned everything the hard way – like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.

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Searchin for peace be like fishing for water.
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Funny Instagram Captions Peace Search
Control is not real, and I’m really understanding that every day. It’s about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.
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Acceptance Control Powerful Reality Understand Yourself
When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I’ve had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.
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Art Creation Force Imagination Myself Parents Time Writing Yourself
I make bad decisions frequently. They’re fun.
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Bad Decision Fun Instagram Captions Myself
There’s something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It’s like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.
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You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.
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Body Care Respect Self Love Yourself
I was born in St. Louis, but I’m from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It’s very small. It’s quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.
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Born Complete Different Myself Place
Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.
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Acceptance Reality
I feel like when you say ‘activist,’ you have to have so much clarity, and I don’t always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I’m trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be.
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Body Control Feeling God Kind Myself Necessary Need People
Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.
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Acceptance Gift God Gratitude Myself Religious
I think we all do: I think we wonder if we’re supposed to be here if we’re doing the right thing, if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time.
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I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I’m in it.
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Feeling Imagination Live Myself
No one sets an impossible beauty standard like ya own mama lmao.
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Beautiful Funny Impossible Mom
I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.
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Design Fashion Myself Thinking
I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.
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Myself Sports
Wearing a hijab never made me feel any more conservative – it made me feel safe. Then, after 9/11, I became the butt of a joke on the playground, so I stopped wearing it. Kids can be really cruel when you’re the only black girl in your Girl Scout troop.
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I learned everything the hard way – like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.

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I learned everything the hard way – like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.

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