Jacqueline Woodson Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Hurt, Stars, Fall

  Jacqueline Woodson (2002). “Maizon at Blue Hill”, p.37, Penguin

• I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Life Changing, Believe, Book

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Being A 'Brown Girl' Who Dreams". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 18, 2014.

• As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Hard Times, Tools, Language

  Source: therumpus.net

• Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that it's surprising. It's surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Home, Looks, Brooklyn

  Source: therumpus.net

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