I'm Jay-Z on a bad day, Shakespeare on my worst days
Little Simz quotes
- Quotes
- 14
- Lyrics
- 10
- Interviews
- 4
The page holds 14 lines, split 10 lyrics and 4 interview quotes, with Introvert (three lines), Venom (two), 101FM and Speed on the music side and Yahoo News UK (2021), NME (2021) and Dazed (2023) on the talking side. Wisdom, confidence and ambition tie at 3 lines each. The recurring tension is between ambition and contentment: a lyric puts her next to Jay-Z on a bad day and Shakespeare on her worst, while an interview says she wants to be a legend but her career is not her life. The pull between ambition and contentment is the page's best material.
One day, I'm wordless, next day, I'm a wordsmith
Close to success, but to happiness, I'm the furthest
Negative at heart, am I?
Or shall I explain what the world done to me?
Never givin' credit where it's due 'cause you don't like pussy in power
They will never wanna admit I'm the best here
From the mere fact that I've got ovaries
My career is very important to me, but it's not my life.
Book smart with the bars, but I never learnt that from school (Nah)
Here, there's nobody but us and it's only you on my mind
They might mistake this for lust but they'll never get how we vibe
Music is energy. You want it to bounce off the walls, you want it to bounce between people, you want it to fill a room
I'm a Black woman and I'm a proud one
Look beyond the surface, don't just see what you wanna see
Above all, it’s me saying my truth and I think there’s great power in that. There’s great strength in vulnerability, so I persevered and I’m really happy I did.
Still runnin' with ease, marathon, not sprint
I want to be a legend, but sometimes I don't know why. There are all these people on the ground doing real work: the teachers, the healers, the preachers.