I’m a visual learner, so the film is a huge inspiration to me.
SZAI live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I’m in it.
More SZA Quotes
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I love folk. I love rap.
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I don’t think I’m inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be a feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy, thing. And I’m very drawn to female energy, but I don’t really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it.
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It’s so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I’m not incredibly passionate about.
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Only break the rules baby or whatever Ja said.
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No one sets an impossible beauty standard like ya own mama lmao.
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I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.
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We’re changing little girls’ lives across the world, and we didn’t even know what we were doing when we started.
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I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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I have a really strong gluten allergy, and I’m pretty lactose-intolerant, like, in a big way, but I love cheese.
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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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How many thick black women are there singing whatever I’m singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can’t really judge someone else for judging me!
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On Halloween, because we don’t celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.
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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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I worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.
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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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