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It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.

SZA

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
Blessed beyond measure to be with people who inspire me and have a vision beyond my wildest dreams.
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Beyond Blessing Dream Inspirational People Vision Wild
I think we all do: I think we wonder if we’re supposed to be here if we’re doing the right thing if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time.
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Myself Right Thinking Time Wonderful
Mental health and family above all things. Period.
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Family Health Mental Worth
I love folk. I love rap.
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Music Myself
I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.
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Honesty Music Myself Thinking
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
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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Character Feeling Man Myself Shame
I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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Born Character 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
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.
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Art Beautiful Care Darkness Skin Time Yourself
I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was in my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts.
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Fashion Live Myself
In one way, I want to heal people.
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Healing Myself Oneself People
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
Everything I love I over do.
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Love Myself One Liner
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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Control Myself Philosophy Willing Worth

It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.

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