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Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Poetry People Young Try Poet

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

Passion People Win Underdog You

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Time Action Genius Born Place Never

In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.

Respect Great End Musicians Singer

I box two to three times a week. I don't like going to the gym because it's boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I'm actually learning something that's useful.

Stephanie Sigman

Learning Imagination Feel Week You

I went back to Kolkata around two years back after a gap of 14 years, and though the city had changed, the people hadn't. Everybody is cultured and knowledgeable there. I have emotional memories of the place.

Memories People City Back Place Two

It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.

Good Myself Hero Yourself People

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

True Experiences Own Your Stuff

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

Great People Ambition Growing Up You

I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.

Up Brothers Grew Costello Lewis

I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.

David Wroblewski

Creative Writing Career Way Software

A lot of rap music can get repetitive.

Brantley Gilbert

Music Rap Music Rap Get Repetitive

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

Strength Mirror Weakness You Be True

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