It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.
SZAJust tryna eat pasta and mind my business.
More SZA Quotes
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Nothing feels better than switching wigs for no reason.
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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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Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.
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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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Your energy told me what your mouth couldn’t.
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I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.
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I hate being outside more than I can explain. I really have debilitating anxiety.
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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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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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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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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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I always used to be like, ‘I don’t need to meditate.’ And it’s not true.
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Blessed beyond measure to be with people who inspire me and have a vision beyond my wildest dreams.
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Just tryna eat pasta and mind my business.
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My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
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