I will be feeling morbid and joyful at the same time.
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 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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I love classical jazz.
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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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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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I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.
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I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.
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My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you’ve ever met. They’re very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.
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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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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 feel like when you say ‘activist,’ you have to have so much clarity, and I don’t always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I’m trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be.
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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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Rebirth. Entropy. Beauty. Chaos. Divine feminine.
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Just tryna eat pasta and mind my business.
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Everything I love I over do.
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I do a lot of strange things.
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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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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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I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.
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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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Every season is my season.
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Searchin for peace be like fishing for water.
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I don’t have a primary doctor, a primary hairstylist, a primary anything. I don’t even have a primary address! Everything is just whenever I can find one.
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I was a funky kid.
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It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.
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I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj’s ‘Feeling Myself.’
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