Jamila Woods Quotes

I like the idea of a broader range of people feeling seen.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.

Our politics is about people not flags.

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

How central shall democracy be in everything else we want to do in the world?

I'm such a firm believer that everyone should see themselves in a character, and everyone should feel represented.

Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.

I want to go back to Congress and get to work on making a real difference for the families and workers of South Florida.

'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

I feel really blessed to work in a place that values me for what I bring as a journalist and as a professional storyteller and navigator of the news. But I also know that they appreciate about me, my perspective as a woman, as a black woman.

Special things happen when you center people who haven't been centered before.

It's really humbling and gratifying to see that people are finally realizing that we are talented and we have things to say and that our stories are just like your stories. There's no reason that anybody from Wisconsin or Turkey can't relate to 'Atlanta.'

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.