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
african people understand
People who don't know what it's like to be an African American don't understand that it's OK, ... I never want to be other than an African American.
african family grandma history interested talked
Before Grandma died, she talked about family history in a way she had never done before, ... She was interested in family history, especially African American women.
awful bed change everyday needing thinking wake work
I think it's important that everyday we think about the work we need to do to make this world a better place. I mean, we should wake up thinking about it and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's tasks. There's an awful lot of change needing to be made around here.
dream people library
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.