Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

I don't want my kids to have to walk through a world where they have to constantly explain who they are and who their family is.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyWalkWorldWantExplainKids

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

Joe Elliott

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I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.

Joe Gibbs

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I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.

Merce Cunningham

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All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

Amar Bose

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I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.

Sonam Kapoor

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I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

Tracy Morgan

Not PerfectPerfectStrive

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

Robert Crais

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Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

Lucy Powell

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You have to make a decision: Am gonna be the person that takes the risk? Am I gonna be the person that says I'm gonna start this business and I'm gonna follow through with it no matter what the obstacles?

Joy Mangano

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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Joseph Brodsky

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I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching and good surroundings, raised by the church, where I went every week whether I wanted to or not.

Deontay Wilder

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Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.

Chiang Kai-shek

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