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Jamila Woods

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[Wikipedia] Jamila Abidemi Woods is an American singer, songwriter and poet based in Chicago, Illinois. Woods is a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep and Brown University, where she received a BA in Africana Studies and Theater & Performance Studies. Her work focuses on themes of Black ancestry, Black femini

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I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

Art

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For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical…

Compassion

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'HEAVN' is about black girlhood, about Chicago, about the people we miss who have gone on to prepare a place for us…

Black girl

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My art gets called political, as opposed to my intending it to be political. I think that's something that happens with black…

Art

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I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because…

Family

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A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like…

Black lives

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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

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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…

Myself

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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…

Band

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I think it's just my nature to stay on the outside so that I can understand and observe.

I think

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That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.

Art

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I don't sound like other people. My voice isn't as loud and can't do certain things athletically.

Loud

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I'm nearsighted, in part, because I would read past my bedtime in the dark. I didn't want my mom to see that…

Dark

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I think a lot of people, in general, have whatever mechanisms they have in order to go through the day. For me,…

Day

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The beach is still a public place, and that's an amazing grace about Chicago. We have so many problems, but the water…

Amazing

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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…

Art

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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…

Connections

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