SZA Quotes

My family is very conservative.

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.

My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.

Traditional values is the last trump card the Republican party possesses.

The country is increasingly culturally conservative, with a small C. Every time marriage is on the ballot, it passes. People are increasingly pro-life. They don't like taxes.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important.

I came from a very military, Christian, Southern upbringing.

The Republican Party I grew up in was a Republican Party of family unity.

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was nothing really modern that went on under their roof. We watched television, but they were very picky about what we could watch - old Westerns and stuff that wasn't vulgar or violent at all.

I am a conservative Republican from the South.

Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

I support traditional marriage. I always have.

My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing.

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.

I identify, I guess, as a conservative Catholic.

The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.

Contributing to GOP unity, Pence is a churchgoing evangelical family man.

I was brought up by four older sisters, so there's trouble right there. We are Catholic, very religious, and that sort of colors my world and my music.