Jamila Woods Quotes
I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
Quotes to Explore
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.
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There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.
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Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
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Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
