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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 hate being outside more than I can explain. I really have debilitating anxiety.
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Explanation Myself Struggle
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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Music Myself People
I don’t want to speak negativity into existence.
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Existence Myself Negative Talk
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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Change Inspirational World
I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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Born Character Myself
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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Different Father Food Myself Teaching Walk
Especially when I’m nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.
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Mindset Myself Run Sick Talk
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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Father Mom Myself Parents Woman
I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I’m in it.
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Feeling Imagination Live Myself
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
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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Body Control Feeling God Kind Myself Necessary Need People
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
I love folk. I love rap.
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Music Myself
I’m a visual learner, so the film is a huge inspiration to me.
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Inspirational Learning Myself
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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Black Feeling Myself Safety
My mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
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Eat Mom Myself Old

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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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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