Jacqueline Woodson Quotes - Page 3

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• Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  People, Black, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Children, Thinking, Glasses

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Mother, Ugly, Said

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, "How could that possibly be?"

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Mets

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  I've Learned

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We live inside our parents' backstory.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Men, Thinking, White Man

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Know How, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Stills

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Together, Attention, Pay

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, Race, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, My Favorite, Something New

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Imagine, Easy

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  People, Interpretation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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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• To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Home, Appreciate, Watches

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy - how that was all that love was - ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don't rationalize, she'd say. None of it will ever make sense. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes, not wanting to cry. Anne was right. None of it made any sense.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Life, Wall, Eye

  "If You Come Softly". Book by Jacqueline Woodson, 1998.

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• I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, Silence, Southern

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 20, 2014.

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• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Home, Expectations, People

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 20, 2014.

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• I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, Missing, Gone

  Jacqueline Woodson (2002). “If You Come Softly”

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• Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. —Margaret

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Summer, Able, Lasts

  Jacqueline Woodson (2002). “Last Summer With Maizon”, p.42, Penguin

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• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Blue, White

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.136, Penguin

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