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With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people. - Jamila Woods
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When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds. - Jamila Woods
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My mentors were very good. - Jamila Woods
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There is so much talent in Milwaukee, and such diversity. - Jamila Woods
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There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover. - Jamila Woods
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I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind. - Jamila Woods
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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
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. - 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 read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me. - Jamila Woods
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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
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I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action. - Jamila Woods
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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
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I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age. - Jamila Woods
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For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother's church helped pay for my SAT classes when I was in high school and drove me there every week. - Jamila Woods
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