Author: Jamila Woods

Quotes

Part of what I like about living in Chicago is it's not easy. The breath of the city, the everyday challenge of it, is good. It forces you to grow and push yourself.

Part of what I like about living in Chicago is it's not easy. The breath of the city, the everyday challenge of it, is good. It forces you to grow and push yourself.

- Jamila Woods

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.

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

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

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

- Jamila Woods

They say Chicago is for haters. No one will just sweat each other and say, 'Oh, you're so good,' if you're not. Which is another reason I'm inspired to stay.

They say Chicago is for haters. No one will just sweat each other and say, 'Oh, you're so good,' if you're not. Which is another reason I'm inspired to stay.

- Jamila Woods

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

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

- Jamila Woods

I'm interested in figuring out what freedom songs would sound like in 2016.

I'm interested in figuring out what freedom songs would sound like in 2016.

- Jamila Woods

It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.

It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.

- Jamila Woods

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.

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

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

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

- Jamila Woods

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