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Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 12, 1963

Topics

Racism Speak Never Narrative Kids

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

Love Music Guitar Kind Hand More

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

Life Live Easy Soil Pleasant

The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Girl Time Street First Time First

I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

Best Friends Someone Trying Person

I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.

Home People Me Drive Fame Lazy

Though born in Los Angeles, U.S.A., I am a typical Tamil girl.

Girl I Am Born Los Angeles Typical

True stories are way more interesting.

Interesting True Way More Stories

We don't want our government building files on what people think about their government.

Government People Building Think Our

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

Girl Day Past Mom Looking Thought

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake.

Strength Mistake Me You Know Way

I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl - using only enough to glaze the leaves - then toss.

Enough Top Dressing Side Against

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

Believe Lens I Believe Poet Ears

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