Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by SZA
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
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!
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.
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.
It's interesting to all of a sudden be considered valuable.
I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.
I feel good being a black woman; I've always felt good.
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.
I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.
When I think of Afropunk, I think of the best of the best. I think of, like, D'Angelo.
In one way, I want to heal people.
Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner.
Don't get discouraged with your skin when it doesn't do what you want it to do... Give it some time. That's the only way to get to know yourself.
I've fried my hair off. I've shaved my hair off. I've done it all.
People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.
I've been known to wear pajamas onstage for the sole reason of wanting to make sure I'm free enough to execute new things vocally onstage and give my best performance possible.
I worry so much. Like, 'Damn, how can I be excellent?' But it's a journey.
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.
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.
In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate... I realized, 'Oh I'm my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don't mind.'
Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.
We're changing little girls' lives across the world, and we didn't even know what we were doing when we started.
I don't have a primary doctor, a primary hairstylist, a primary anything. I don't even have a primary address! Everything is just whenever I can find one.
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.
I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.
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.
I don't have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I'm there. That's all that matters.
I love food, so having a lot of food allergies now and just having a really sensitive body, it forces me to be very mindful and conscious and eat when I'm hungry, not just when I'm bored, and just really slow down. Everything in moderation.
My mom didn't let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
I have an abundant amount of love in my life, and I'm grateful for that.
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.
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 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.
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.'
My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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.
So many people meet and become friends at my shows that didn't know each other before.
I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way.
I love cuffing season. It's a very inspiring season for those who want to be inspired.
I love classical jazz.
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 was unpopular my whole life.
On Halloween, because we don't celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.
My parents wanted me to go to school.
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.
I don't want to speak negativity into existence.
I make bad decisions frequently. They're fun.
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.
I love when things that I'm involved in really matter and when people like me back and don't just think I'm corny.
I love folk. I love rap.
I'm a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I'm actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I'm in my own head a lot. It's hard and really discouraging.
I love Modest Mouse.
It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.
Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.
I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends.
My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself.
I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.
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.
The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk.
I listen to Stevie Nicks.
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