Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of the misogyny, the racism, the economic struggle, all of it? You need those people saying you're a good mom, a great writer. You're a great dresser. You cook well. Whatever the beauty is that you need to hear.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Jim Rogers

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It's an interesting situation to be in to play a cop on TV and to know so many police officers through our training and our advisors.

Jesse Lee Soffer

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There are so many male models who are working in high fashion, and they are broke. It's good to be a woman.

Andreja Pejic

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It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

John Keegan

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An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Michael Ignatieff

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If President Obama or any president ever attempts gun confiscation in America, there should be and will be a second civil war.

Tom Tancredo

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I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

Rowan Atkinson

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I've always been a fan of Kate Winslet. She's very classy and a sexy little thing, too.

Mila Kunis

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I'm pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important.

Mohsin Hamid

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I miss many chances, but I always keep trying, and sometimes you score easy goals or difficult goals, but in the end, I am trying to score.

Mohamed Salah

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There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore.

Jared Padalecki

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Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of certain emotional integers. It can be like viewing a loved one's X-rays.

Jonathan Miles

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