Every season is my season.
SZAI was born in St. Louis, but I’m from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It’s very small. It’s quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.
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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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Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.
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Just tryna eat pasta and mind my business.
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I love classical jazz.
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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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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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I’m a visual learner, so the film is a huge inspiration to me.
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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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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 hate being outside more than I can explain. I really have debilitating anxiety.
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I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.
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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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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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I make bad decisions frequently. They’re fun.
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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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