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.
SZANothing feels better than switching wigs for no reason.
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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 love folk. I love rap.
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Especially when I’m nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.
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I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.
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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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Your energy told me what your mouth couldn’t.
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Every day I pray to see myself the way God and others see me.
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I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.
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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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Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.
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My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you’ve ever met. They’re very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.
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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 don’t feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I’ve had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.
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God forever working harder than satan.
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I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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