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.
SZAI just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I’m super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.
More SZA Quotes
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I don’t have any control over what actually happens except that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I’m there. That’s all that matters.
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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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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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I love folk. I love rap.
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I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.
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Pain plus love and time = power.
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Every day I pray to see myself the way God and others see me.
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Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.
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As long as you’re being honest and there’s the intention in what you’re doing, then I think that energy permeates your field and becomes like a homing signal for other people with like energies.
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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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My mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
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I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was in my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts.
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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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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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Rebirth. Entropy. Beauty. Chaos. Divine feminine.
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Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it. SZA
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You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.
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I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.
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I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.
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I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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I don’t have a background in music, and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I’m gonna get lost.
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I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj’s ‘Feeling Myself.’
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Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.
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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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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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Only break the rules baby or whatever Ja said.
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