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.
SZAPain plus love and time = power.
More SZA Quotes
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I made this and have too much to say about it.
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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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Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.
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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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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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I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
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I don’t enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.
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Everything I love I over do.
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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 think music is honest and will make you do honest things.
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Searchin for peace be like fishing for water.
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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 worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.
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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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Every day I pray to see myself the way God and others see me.
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