SZA Quotes
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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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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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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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We're changing little girls' lives across the world, and we didn't even know what we were doing when we started.
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I worry so much. Like, 'Damn, how can I be excellent?' But it's a journey.
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I don't think I'm inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be 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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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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How many thick black women are there singing whatever I'm singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can't really judge someone else for judging me!
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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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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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It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.
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I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts.
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I was unpopular my whole life.
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My parents wanted me to go to school.
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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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Sugar makes me feel crazy - like, makes my body hurt kind of a thing. I don't really eat fruit because it has a lot of sugar. I try not to eat a lot of red meat, but every now and again, I feel like I need iron or something - something that I'm missing.
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Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.
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I love Obama, and I just want to reiterate it again to everyone from every hilltop and every mountain: I love him!
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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 wasn't one of those girls who sang at church.
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I love Modest Mouse.
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As long as you're being honest and there's 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.