“You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.”
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“You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.”
“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...”
“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.”
“I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj's 'Feeling Myself.'”
“I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends.”
“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.”
“I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.”
“I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.”
“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...”
“Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'”
“I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics, learning a lot more and preserving what's left of the world. That's such a sacred circle to be in. I'd love to...”
“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 f...”
“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 ver...”
“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.”
“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.”
“Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.”
“I've fried my hair off. I've shaved my hair off. I've done it all.”
“My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.”
“I do a lot of strange things.”
“Oh, Instagram stresses me out on a very deep level!”