58 Quotes by Jamila Woods

I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age.

In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able to speak to them. I hope to cultivate a fan base of black girls and black people and people of color, women of color, queer people, people who are are marginalized in general.

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

When I was a kid, getting on Lake Shore Drive from the south side to go downtown was magical.

In church, the music is for everyone. People are singing off tune, loud; they're not ashamed - it's for their healing. That's kind of just what I strive for, that feeling.

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.

I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.

There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover.