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My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages.

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No one sets an impossible beauty standard like ya own mama lmao.
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Beautiful Funny Impossible Mom
I don’t listen to my own music, so to me, it’s awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn’t connect with everyone. I’m more appreciative than anything. SZA
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Connection Music Myself People Scare Thankful
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
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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Black Feeling Myself Safety
In one way, I want to heal people.
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Healing Myself Oneself People
I don’t enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.
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Empty Feeling Enjoyment Myself
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
I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
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Alone Friendship Myself
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
Only break the rules baby or whatever Ja said.
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Break Rule
Kicked myself out the algorithm.
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Control Instagram Captions Myself
My mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
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Eat Mom Myself Old
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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Myself Passionate Person Reality World
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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Different Father Grow Up Live Pride Protection Religion Weird
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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God Hope Learning Lesson Myself People
Rebirth. Entropy. Beauty. Chaos. Divine feminine.
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Born Divine Instagram Captions

My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages.

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