Aaliyah (1979–2001) American singer, actress and model
1997 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOss3w1LH1g
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
Source: Upstream: Selected Essays
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