Everything I love I over do.
SZAMy 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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Rebirth. Entropy. Beauty. Chaos. Divine feminine.
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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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I have a really strong gluten allergy, and I’m pretty lactose-intolerant, like, in a big way, but I love cheese.
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I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.
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Kicked myself out the algorithm.
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Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.
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I love classical jazz.
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I used to be very revenge-motivated, but that’s just because I’m a Scorpio. Now I’m more so, like, practice honesty just because it makes you feel better.
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Every day I grapple between ‘I’m going to get married’ and ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.’
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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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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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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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I love folk. I love rap.
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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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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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