A Quote by Little Simz
As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.
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You only get honest expression when I spit in your ear;
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After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid of myself and my own thoughts. I think so much of being a woman, of being a social being, of being polite, is quieting those thoughts. There's so much we try not to say as we go through the day. There's a lot of tempering and self-editing. It is a relief to make writing that space where I don't need to do that.
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