58 Quotes by Jamila Woods

I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.

Me and my three younger siblings, we sang together in grandma's church, and I was in the Chicago Children's Choir in high school, but I didn't think I had the voice to be a singer professionally.

My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.