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When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

- Jamila Woods
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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.

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.

Hairdressers are all-knowing. They're so wise.

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

My art gets called political, as opposed to my intending it to be political. I think that's something that happens with black artists or marginalized voices trying to speak truth. Because there are things in the status quo to speak out against, speaking out against them will inherently be political.

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.

A lot of people get Chicago wrong. I've developed this protective feeling about how we're portrayed, and at the same time, I'm acutely aware of the issues we face and the root causes of these issues.

'HEAVN' is about black girlhood, about Chicago, about the people we miss who have gone on to prepare a place for us somewhere else, about the city/world we aspire to live in. I hope this album encourages listeners to love themselves and love each other.

Part of what I like about living in Chicago is it's not easy. The breath of the city, the everyday challenge of it, is good. It forces you to grow and push yourself.

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When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.