Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

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• Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Diversity, Together, World

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• There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Dream, Reading, People

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• People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  People, Worry, Judging

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• 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.

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• Even the silence
  has a story to tell you.
  Just listen. Listen.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Silence, Stories, Just Listen

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.241, Penguin

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• But on paper, things can live forever.
  On paper, a butterfly
  never dies.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Butterfly, Forever, Paper

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.215, Penguin

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• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Reading, Deep Understanding, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Teacher, Lying, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Life, Believe, Perfect

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.271, Penguin

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• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Block, Heart, School

  Jacqueline Woodson (2002). “Maizon at Blue Hill”, p.9, Penguin

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• In all your getting, get understanding.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Understanding

  Jacqueline Woodson (2006). “Hush”, p.91, Penguin

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• I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I feel like it's our job to put that down on paper, and put it out into the world, so that it can be remembered.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Jobs, Thinking, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Long, Ready

  Jacqueline Woodson (2006). “If You Come Softly”, p.102, Penguin

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• 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.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Nice, Laughing, World

  Jacqueline Woodson (2009). “Peace, Locomotion”, p.82, Penguin

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• I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Answers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What you say is what matters.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  What Matters, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Pain, Color, Racism

  Jacqueline Woodson (2002). “Maizon at Blue Hill”, p.47, Penguin

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• No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Tears, Matter, Cry

  Jacqueline Woodson (2009). “Peace, Locomotion”, p.19, Penguin

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• I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Flower, Writing, Stories

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• I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's me in every character I put on the pages.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Character, Pages

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Trying, World, Spinning

  Jacqueline Woodson (2006). “Behind You”, p.42, Penguin

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• I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  I've Learned, Prose, Marrying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people not - just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, People, Silence

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

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• When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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