American - Writer | February 12, 1963 -
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
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When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.
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I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.
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I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.
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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.
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I think when I was a young person, there was just kind of - there was very little dialogue about it. And there was just kind of one way to be gay, right? You saw very effeminate guys. You saw very butch women. And there was no kind of in-between. And there was no - you know, there wasn't anything in the media. There wasn't anything on television.
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To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.
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I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you're so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?
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My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.
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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.
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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.
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Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.
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