“I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about se...” — Jamila Woods Quote

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.”

“The more people see and the more they get interested in things, the more they go back to the places they do like and respect.”

“I look back upon my times when more people were listening to what I had to say, and I didn't say enough.”