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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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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
I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.
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Design Fashion Myself Thinking
I don’t have a background in music, and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I’m gonna get lost.
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Attention Lost Music Myself Time
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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Herself Home Ideas Language Mom Myself
We’re changing little girls’ lives across the world, and we didn’t even know what we were doing when we started.
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Change Inspirational World
How many thick black women are there singing whatever I’m singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can’t really judge someone else for judging me!
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Black Judgement Myself Sing Woman
I do a lot of strange things.
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Myself One Liner Strange
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
Every day I grapple between ‘I’m going to get married’ and ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.’
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Alone Dog Life Marriage Myself
I hate being outside more than I can explain. I really have debilitating anxiety.
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Explanation Myself Struggle
It’s so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I’m not incredibly passionate about.
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Focus Myself Passionate Time
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 just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I’m super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.
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Connection Feeling Music Myself People Thankful Yourself
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
Sugar makes me feel crazy – like, makes my body hurt kind of a thing. I don’t really eat fruit because it has a lot of sugar. I try not to eat a lot of red meat, but every now and again, I feel like I need iron or something – something that I’m missing.
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Body Crazy Eat Feeling Hurt Kind Missing Myself
I love cuffing season. It’s a very inspiring season for those who want to be inspired.
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Inspirational Love Myself Season

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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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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