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.
SZAI 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.
More SZA Quotes
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I was a funky kid.
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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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Nothing feels better than switching wigs for no reason.
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Mental health and family above all things. Period.
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I don’t enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.
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Searchin for peace be like fishing for water.
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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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I don’t want to speak negativity into existence.
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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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In one way, I want to heal people.
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No one sets an impossible beauty standard like ya own mama lmao.
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Everything I love I over do.
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I love classical jazz.
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People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it’s interesting to me. I’m just making music.
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You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.
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