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. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets of New York tell the story of resistance, an African-American history of brilliance and beauty that, even in its most brutal moments, did not – could not – kill our resilient and powerful spirit. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
For my family, ‘black-ish’ is the reward on a Thursday evening – a day after the show officially airs, when it’s finally available to be streamed. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
I would have written ‘Brown Girl Dreaming’ if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside a desk drawer that my own children pulled out one day to find a tool for survival, a symbol of how strong we are and how much we’ve come through. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness. Jacqueline Woodson Read Quote
