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
done world
There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change I can and do the work I need to do through this gift I've been given.
thinking world witness
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.
trying spinning world
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
world enough ifs
If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee
diversity together world
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
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.
bored either grade middle move
I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
deal hope moved respects
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
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.
people
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.
asking people realized start talking time
I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.
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.
call closest cold friend realize reason rule sadder seen sitting summer together waiting winter
In the summer I have this friend who I am closest to, and sometimes, in the winter, I long to call her up and say, come here and live with me, in this cold place. But we are summer friends. There is a rule it seems, that summer friends don't get together in the wintertime. Now, sitting here, waiting for her, I realize that I have never seen her in a winter coat, and for some reason that makes me sadder than anything else in the world.