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Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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People World Literature Mirrors See

Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.

Jodi Benson

Life Son Great Wonderful Flexibility

It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.

John Lithgow

Time Long Long Time See I See Rare

I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

Maureen Forrester

Simple People Me World Nobody Will

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

John Shelby Spong

God Think Look Know Human Out

Jimmy Carter is the most intelligent. Jimmy Carter is a good man.

Sirio Maccioni

Good Man Good Man Intelligent Most

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Steve Martin

Art You Want Craft Whatever Your

I can sit down with my sisters, and they can talk about my body in a certain way, and I will laugh about it with them. That's such a comfortable and loving relationship. But if a stranger I meet in a party makes the same comment, depending on their tone, that's not okay.

Rupi Kaur

Relationship Laugh Body Loving Down

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

Michael Porter

Health Care Test Patient Organized

A lot of people don't know a lot of records that I've written or produced, so that's a highlight for me as a woman.

Missy Elliott

Woman People Me Know Records Lot

I'm one of the lucky directors that pretty much every movie I've done has started a franchise. But I never think this way. I think that's the way you break it, if you go, 'then at the end, at the end we'll see you later.' I was forced to do it in 'Clash of the Titans.'

Louis Leterrier

Think End You Go Done Way

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

Judd Gregg

Democracy Action Without Tell Pursue

My wife makes the best chocolate chip pancakes, and my son and I are only too happy to stay home and eat them.

Jason O'Mara

Home Son Best Wife Happy Chocolate