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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 was unpopular my whole life. "

" Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner. "

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" 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 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 was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports. "

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" Oh, Instagram stresses me out on a very deep level! "

" Biochemical interactions are very interesting to me. "

" I don't listen to my own music, so to me, it's awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn't connect with everyone. I'm more appreciative than anything. "

" 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. "

" When I think of Afropunk, I think of the best of the best. I think of, like, D'Angelo. "

" 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 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. "

" Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal. "

" 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 used to be offended when people would compare me to Erykah Badu. Because I'm black, thick, and have large lips? There's nothing similar about us whatsoever, and I felt very disrespected by the fact that people needed to pigeonhole me. I wasn't even raised on Erykah Badu! "

" 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. "

" I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after. "

" Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me. "

" It's interesting to all of a sudden be considered valuable. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to speak negativity into existence. "

" We're changing little girls' lives across the world, and we didn't even know what we were doing when we started. "

" I always wanted to be a Klingon princess. They were so pretty, and their hair was fire. My hair is Klingon, I feel like. "

" I was a funky kid. "

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" I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative. "