Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I love.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveI AmAmazingMeFeelWalking

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

John Clayton

SocietyLegalCreateBirthEthnic

It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.

John Hillcoat

PositiveBeautifulPeopleWorldPoor

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

FacePovertyChangingFundamentally

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

Angus Deaton

LifeTimeMoneyPeopleWorryEnough

Snowden has demonstrated true love for his country. He has done something to improve the lives of people.

Jean-Michel Jarre

LoveTrue LovePeopleCountryDone

All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.

Michael Ignatieff

LifeChangeBestPoliticsPeople

I often find myself in situations where I am the token black person. It can feel like this enormous weight.

Amandla Stenberg

MyselfI AmBlackFeelFindPerson

You don't want to be innocent in the world of 'Game of Thrones.'

Sophie Turner

WorldGameYouInnocentWant

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

Stana Katic

FoodMeComfortKindSoundReal

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

Rumi

BirdSoulFlyMy SoulNowAway

Sports are evolving and always evolving, and people have that determination to keep going and coming back. I think I'm one of those athletes. I stand to show that people shouldn't give up. You've got to just keep going until you succeed.

Mirai Nagasu

DeterminationSportsKeep GoingThink

I love my time with my kids.

Jay DeMarcus

LoveTimeKidsMy TimeI Love

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