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.
SZAWhen 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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I have an abundant amount of love in my life, and I’m grateful for that.
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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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Everything I love I over do.
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I hate being outside more than I can explain. I really have debilitating anxiety.
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On Halloween, because we don’t celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.
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Searchin for peace be like fishing for water.
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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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Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.
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Just tryna eat pasta and mind my business.
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As long as you’re being honest and there’s the intention in what you’re doing, then I think that energy permeates your field and becomes like a homing signal for other people with like energies.
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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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I’ve been known to wear pajamas onstage for the sole reason of wanting to make sure I’m free enough to execute new things vocally on stage and give my best performance possible.
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Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it. SZA
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I always used to be like, ‘I don’t need to meditate.’ And it’s not true.
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Blessed beyond measure to be with people who inspire me and have a vision beyond my wildest dreams.
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