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

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

Jamila Woods

I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.

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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.

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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, 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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

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There is so much talent in Milwaukee, and such diversity.

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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 part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.

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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 I was still awake.

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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.

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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 always stays. That inspires me and keeps me inspired about the city and keeps me hopeful.

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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.

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

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I hold strongly to my identity as a Chicago artist and want to do whatever I can to participate in creating a strong community here so that artists don't feel pressure to move somewhere else to succeed.

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

Jamila Woods

I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.

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Hairdressers are all-knowing. They're so wise.

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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.

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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 somewhere else, about the city/world we aspire to live in. I hope this album encourages listeners to love themselves and love each other.

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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.

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The good things about Chicago save me on a daily basis, like getting to work with my students, seeing a beautiful part of the city, or seeing the people that I love.

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