Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodsonis an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac & D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth12 February 1963
CountryUnited States of America
finding pulling
I didn't know about them, and finding out was like pulling teeth.
done world
There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change I can and do the work I need to do through this gift I've been given.
asking people realized start talking time
I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.
call closest cold friend realize reason rule sadder seen sitting summer together waiting winter
In the summer I have this friend who I am closest to, and sometimes, in the winter, I long to call her up and say, come here and live with me, in this cold place. But we are summer friends. There is a rule it seems, that summer friends don't get together in the wintertime. Now, sitting here, waiting for her, I realize that I have never seen her in a winter coat, and for some reason that makes me sadder than anything else in the world.
deal hope moved respects
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
dream people library
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
butterfly forever paper
But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.
nice laughing world
Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.
reading deep-understanding age
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page.
life-changing book believe
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,
diversity together world
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
silence stories just-listen
Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.
worry judging people
People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.
moving believe needs
I definitely believe in a greater good. I definitely believe that there's a reason each of us is here and that we've been brought here to do something. And we need to get busy doing it. And I definitely believe that there is something moving us forward that's good.