Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

If you have no road map, you have to create your own.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RoadYouCreateMapOwnRoad Map

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

Andy Goldsworthy

PeoplePlacePresenceLeaveEven

I work during the days and have night classes on Wednesday and Thursday and live with my partner, who is in school during the days and works Wednesday through Saturday nights. Monday and Tuesday are therefore our nights, and we both get our work out of the way so we can actually spend time together.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

WorkLiveTimeTogetherSchoolWay

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Stanley Crouch

ForwardAmericaGoNeedRenaissance

I love the challenge of singing something that's not that easy.

Diana DeGarmo

LoveChallengeSingingEasyI Love

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

David Zinczenko

CelebrityAgainstIdeaEditor

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

David Whyte

LifePoetryEnoughWantKindLarge

I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.

Chuck Inglish

WordsPeopleCoolGoldThinkDoing

Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

Boy George

ManI AmPeopleGayPersonVillage

There are times in your life where you need to make vital choices.

Brigitte Macron

LifeChoicesYouNeedWhereYour

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

Aravind Adiga

LifeCityMindCrazyNewVillage

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Arthur Schopenhauer

CharacterManOthersMoreCompany

Obviously, the good thing about golf, it's difficult to really, really blow it after five holes unless it goes really, really, really... really, really, really wrong. But you still have 13 to go, and if you have a good run, where you make five or six birdies, you can get it back somehow.

Sergio Garcia

GoodGolfYouBackWrongRun

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