Jamila Woods Quotes

Jamila Woods
American Musician
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When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds. Jamila Woods
You Else Everyone Everyone Else About Blending How Sounds Choir
I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam. Jamila Woods
People First Looking Met Band Young Our Collaborate Poetry Through Were Chicago Authors Working Slam Album Chance
I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful. Jamila Woods
Art Alone You Healing Outsider Feel Like Make Creating Useful
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. Jamila Woods
Song Writing Those Would Brooks About Someone Poem Poetry Between Talk Always Hip-Hop Very Influenced Spaces Teach Connections Things Started
I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind. Jamila Woods
Song Mind College Solomon Blew Read Just
There is so much talent in Milwaukee, and such diversity. Jamila Woods
Diversity Talent Much Milwaukee
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people. Jamila Woods
Me People Poet Other Gave Approach Lyrics Than Being Different Different Approach
When I was a kid, getting on Lake Shore Drive from the south side to go downtown was magical. Jamila Woods
Drive Side Kid Magical Go South South Side Getting Shore Lake Downtown
For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight. Jamila Woods
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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. Jamila Woods
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I'm interested in figuring out what freedom songs would sound like in 2016. Jamila Woods
Freedom Out Would Songs Like Sound Interested Figuring
My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world. Jamila Woods
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I don't sound like other people. My voice isn't as loud and can't do certain things athletically. Jamila Woods
People Other Voice Like Sound Loud Certain Certain Things Things
My mentor made me say a poem over and over. 'Stop! That's not your voice. Start again.' I was sobbing by the end, but it drilled into my head that my voice is important. Jamila Woods
Me Made Important Say Poem Voice Mentor Head Over End Stop Again Your Start
Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city. Jamila Woods
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My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself. Jamila Woods
Myself People World Other Projects Ways Though Perceive Poetry Could Most Pigeonholed How Been Exists Done Artistic Manifesto Certain Even Things
I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music. Jamila Woods
Music Art Saying Girl Poetry Like Liked Whether Manifesto Create Really Why
I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things. Jamila Woods
Work Art Me Stuff Making Tangible Sake Wanting Place Create Actually Things
The beach is still a public place, and that's an amazing grace about Chicago. We have so many problems, but the water always stays. That inspires me and keeps me inspired about the city and keeps me hopeful. Jamila Woods
Me Grace Water Amazing Problems Hopeful City Stays About Beach Inspired Inspires Always Still Chicago Place Public Many Keeps
Naming something, putting it on record, in a lyric, feels like affirming people. Ideally, that's what politicians should want to do: to put laws or policies in place that speak to people's experiences, to make them feel heard. Jamila Woods
People Speak Politicians Lyric Record Something Laws Put Putting Feel Feels Like Ideally Naming Make Policies Heard Affirming Want Experiences Place Them Should
I think a lot of people, in general, have whatever mechanisms they have in order to go through the day. For me, I do just literally have post-it notes and other little messages to strengthen me on hard days, or just on regular days, to remind me - to remind ourselves - of our dopeness. Jamila Woods
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I spent a lot time with my siblings because there weren't too many young people on our block. We were our own best friends: making dances to a Stevie Wonder songs and singing with my mom. Jamila Woods
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I don't know if it's because I grew up in Beverly or my friends, but I listened to a lot of alternative rock music. I loved Incubus, Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. It almost felt segregated because I loved all of those acts over here, but then I also loved R&B and soul music I grew up with. Jamila Woods
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It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song. Jamila Woods
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I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write. Jamila Woods
Poet Lyrics Write Like Brain Sensibility Bringing
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. Jamila Woods
Me Together School Church Three Think High High School Voice Had Singer Chicago Children Younger Grandma Choir Sang Professionally Sibling
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