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Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson
American Writer
Born: Feb 12, 1963
Me People Think World Writing You
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Sometimes, when I'm sitting at my desk for long hours and nothing's coming to me, I remember my fifth-grade teacher, the way her eyes lit up when she said, 'This is really good.' Jacqueline Woodson
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I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page. Jacqueline Woodson
Love Writing Situation Physical Put Well How Which Page Act Each Grow
I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I love. Jacqueline Woodson
Love Me Amazing Before Christopher Some Writers Feel Footsteps Come Like Am Dean Walking Paul Richard Kate Who
What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive. Jacqueline Woodson
Myself People Matter Circumstances Learned Survive
I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it. Jacqueline Woodson
Time Had Wrote Encouraged Teachers Who
If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow. Jacqueline Woodson
Big About Someone Something How Passionate Question Big Question Them Really Help Grow Brilliance
I love playing with form. I love playing with sounds... I love music, and I love writing that has a musicality to it. Jacqueline Woodson
Love Music Writing Musicality Sounds Form Playing
In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve. Jacqueline Woodson
Writing Dissolve Brooklyn Had Another Friendships Happens Imagine
I feel like, as a person of color, I've always been kind of doing the work against the tide. Jacqueline Woodson
Work Kind Color Feel Like Tide Always Doing Been Person Against
The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, 'I'm getting my kids out of here. I'm creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary.' Jacqueline Woodson
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I don't want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again. Jacqueline Woodson
World Walk Feeling Through Invisible Want Anyone Again Ever
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature. Jacqueline Woodson
Love World Young Adult How How Much Young Adult Children Literature Much
'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively. Jacqueline Woodson
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Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading. Jacqueline Woodson
Best People Reading Labeling Young Way Best Way Get Young People Engage Deeply
With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience. Jacqueline Woodson
Time Experience Writing Try Before Sit Down Stuff New Readers Done Different Want Each Each Time Extension
I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness. Jacqueline Woodson
Kindness You People Think Willing About Come Talk Anything
We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are. Jacqueline Woodson
Fears Own Our More Adult Check Smarter Because Than Human Children Want Door Them Fully Gatekeepers
I don't want my kids to have to walk through a world where they have to constantly explain who they are and who their family is. Jacqueline Woodson
Family World Walk Kids Constantly Through Where Want Explain Who
My mom was very strict. And we were very religious. So I knew that I was not allowed to do the wrong thing. And I knew that I had a home I could run to. And I had a mom. Jacqueline Woodson
Home Mom Strict Wrong Thing Run Religious Could Had Allowed Knew Wrong Were Very Thing
To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people. Jacqueline Woodson
Love People Try Poet Young Laureate Poet Laureate Poetry Accessibility Spread Young People
The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer to stay open to the memories of that period because they were so formative. Jacqueline Woodson
Me Memories Important Think Say Stay Writer Open Between Period Because Were Huge Happens Formative Conscious
The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space. Jacqueline Woodson
Rights Fight Space Rights Movement Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement About Had Access Movement Public
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 You Lie Trouble Down Lying Say Kid Write Had Instead Because Got Lot Anymore Fiction
I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So until it's close to done, I keep pretty quiet about my next stuff! Jacqueline Woodson
Book Once Say Out Pretty About Never Feel Stuff Like Until Loud Close Quiet Done Going Public Next Working Keep Actual
I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers. Jacqueline Woodson
Believe Struggling Advanced Readers
In the daytime, I was expected to be the straight-A student. I was expected to be college bound. I was expected to be a great big sister. And then at night, I was just a club kid. Jacqueline Woodson
Great College Big Sister Club Kid Student Bound Daytime Expected Just Then Night
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