I’ve seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that’s most authentic to them. Jamila Woods Read Quote
I think it’s just my nature to stay on the outside so that I can understand and observe. Jamila Woods Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too. Jamila Woods Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
