Jamila Woods Quotes

The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.

Jamila Woods

Quotes to Explore

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Life
- Writing
- Real
There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

Zoe Saldana
- Different
- Earth
- You
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

Patrick deWitt
- Reading
- Years
- Become
Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

Carly Fiorina
- Look
- Company
- Skills
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

Nadia Giosia
- Old
- Italian
- Saying
Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

Saint Bernard
- Time
- Alone
- Upside Down