Jamila Woods Quotes

Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I'm letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.

When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant to be on this planet.

I fell in love with my voice. I had something inside of me that was like, 'I like this.'

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

It's common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I'm going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.

We all wish we could find and embrace our voice, our strength.

I've grown not only as an actor but as a young woman. I find myself to be more confident and being more open about self-love. I'm still learning how to take up space and speak out when needed, but that's a new thing for me and I'm loving it.

I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason.

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

The life you're leading is the sexiest part of you.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever's going on in the moment, but you don't stop loving songs.