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
happens seems
Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.
swings long forever
The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.
moving blue white
Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.
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
block school heart
That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.
tears matter cry
No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.
mom mother dad
I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?
home expectations people
I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.
faith feeling frustrated people represent stories
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.