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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 classical jazz.
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Love Music Myself
In one way, I want to heal people.
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Healing Myself Oneself People
I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj’s ‘Feeling Myself.’
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Feeling Music Myself
I’m very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.
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Detail Fantasy Myself
My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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Music Myself People Space Touch
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.
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Feeling Listen Music Myself Recovery 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
Don’t get discouraged with your skin when it doesn’t do what you want it to do, Give it some time. That’s the only way to get to know yourself.
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Patience Self Love Skin Yourself
Mental health and family above all things. Period.
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Family Health Mental Worth
Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.
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Acceptance Reality
Only break the rules baby or whatever Ja said.
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Break Rule
I learned everything the hard way – like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.
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God Hope Learning Lesson Myself People
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
I’ve always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn’t let me.
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Fashion Hairs Love Mom Myself Play
My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
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Control Myself
I was born in St. Louis, but I’m from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It’s very small. It’s quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.
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Born Complete Different Myself Place

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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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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