I 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.
SZAThere’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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Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.
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I make bad decisions frequently. They’re fun.
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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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No one sets an impossible beauty standard like ya own mama lmao.
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I love folk. I love rap.
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I don’t have any control over what actually happens except that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I’m there. That’s all that matters.
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Everything I love I over do.
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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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Every day I pray to see myself the way God and others see me.
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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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I used to be very revenge-motivated, but that’s just because I’m a Scorpio. Now I’m more so, like, practice honesty just because it makes you feel better.
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I worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.
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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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Your energy told me what your mouth couldn’t.
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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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