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
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.
diversity together world
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
summer dream memories
I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay. It's funny how we never know exactly how our life will go It's funny how a dream can fade with the break of day. Time can't erase the memory and time can't bring you home Last Summer was a part of me and now a part is gone. —Margaret
fifteen sixteen
Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
mean listening mama
Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.
wall tears want
You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?
feelings together wish
Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.
writing knowing feelings
Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.
trying spinning world
I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living
happens seems
Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.
world enough ifs
If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee
heart thinking broke
I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena
heart forever my-heart
You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D