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I’ve always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn’t let me.

SZA

I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
SZA

Born Character Myself
Your energy told me what your mouth couldn’t.
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Instagram Captions Mouth Myself Talk Yourself
I don’t have a background in music, and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I’m gonna get lost.
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Attention Lost Music Myself Time
Just tryna eat pasta and mind my business.
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Attitude Business Eat Mindset
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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Myself Right Thinking Time
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 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
My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
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Control Myself
Pain plus love and time = power.
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Love Pain Power Time
I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
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Alone Friendship Myself
I always used to be like, ‘I don’t need to meditate.’ And it’s not true.
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Myself Spiritual True
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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Black Judgement Myself Sing Woman
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 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 definitely get inspiration from the ‘gram. I mean, Instagram is Google, essentially. I love looking at pictures of beautiful women.
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Beautiful Inspirational Love Myself Photograph Woman
When you’re, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don’t really take the time to make you look beautiful.
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Art Beautiful Care Darkness Skin Time Yourself
In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate, I realized, ‘Oh I’m my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don’t mind.’
SZA

Myself Passionate Person Reality World
I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj’s ‘Feeling Myself.’
SZA

Feeling Music Myself
You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.
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Body Care Respect Self Love Yourself
I love classical jazz.
SZA

Love Music Myself
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.
SZA

Choice Feminism Myself Thinking
I love cuffing season. It’s a very inspiring season for those who want to be inspired.
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Inspirational Love Myself Season
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
My mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
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Eat Mom Myself Old
Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it. SZA
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Accomplishment Grow Up Music
God forever working harder than satan.
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Evil Forever God

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