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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 feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.
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Fashion 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
I love empowering women. I think it’s crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you’re playing yourself – I ride with whoever rides with me.
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Crazy Love Myself Thinking Women Empowerment
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
I hate being outside more than I can explain. I really have debilitating anxiety.
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Explanation Myself Struggle
Control is not real, and I’m really understanding that every day. It’s about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.
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Acceptance Control Powerful Reality Understand Yourself
I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it’s so affecting that I can’t recover from it.
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Feeling Listen Music Myself Recovery Thinking
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 Wonderful
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
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
I’m a visual learner, so the film is a huge inspiration to me.
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Inspirational Learning Myself
Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.
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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 worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.
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Excellence Journey Myself Worth
No one sets an impossible beauty standard like ya own mama lmao.
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Beautiful Funny Impossible Mom
I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.
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Excellence Fear Myself Success

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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