Just tryna eat pasta and mind my business.
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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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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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.
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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 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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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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Everything I love I over do.
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Don’t get discouraged with your skin when it doesn’t do what you want it to do, Give it some time. That’s the only way to get to know yourself.
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My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages.
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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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I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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I make bad decisions frequently. They’re fun.
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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.
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Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.
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I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I’m in it.
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I was a funky kid.
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