I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
I can’t write about nice, easy topics because that won’t change the world. And I do want to change the world – one reader at a time. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
I think that’s important: to know ‘the other,’ as a means of coming to understanding. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I didn’t have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
I feel like, as a person of color, I’ve always been kind of doing the work against the tide. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
