SZA Quotes
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Oh, Instagram stresses me out on a very deep level!
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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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Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal.
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I've fried my hair off. I've shaved my hair off. I've done it all.
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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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I 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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I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.
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I was a funky kid.
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I 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.
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My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.
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Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner.
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I love classical jazz.
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I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj's 'Feeling Myself.'
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I do a lot of strange things.
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I don't want to speak negativity into existence.
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I love Modest Mouse.
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I don't like to shop. It creates so much anxiety.
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I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.
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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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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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Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.
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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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When I sing full voice, I get nervous because I get nasal and abrasive and a little scratchy.
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I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I'm used to.