Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.
SZAI just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it’s so affecting that I can’t recover from it.
More SZA Quotes
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I was a funky kid.
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When you’re, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don’t really take the time to make you look beautiful.
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I will be feeling morbid and joyful at the same time.
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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.
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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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In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate, I realized, ‘Oh I’m my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don’t mind.’
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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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Everything I love I over do.
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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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Mental health and family above all things. Period.
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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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I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I’m in it.
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I do a lot of strange things.
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Searchin for peace be like fishing for water.
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