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Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beautiful Struggle Creative People

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

Dreams Dream Sound Scent Colour Few

God ain't got nothing to do with winning a damn football game.

God Football Winning Game Damn Got

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

Border Neighbors Nation Along Should

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

Power People Think Dangerous Over

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

People Me Enough Long Down Grind

I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times.

Childhood Brother Sister Think Look

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

Process You Quotation See Out Here

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

Age Ugly Worse Goes Getting Thing

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.

Time Early Never Books Changed Lot

I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi Watts and said, 'I'm about to do 'Cyrano.' So he did various Photoshops of different looks that might work. I was really against any kind of 'Pinocchio' theater thing. The way that it's described in the play is this disfigurement.

Work Doing Looks Play Said Kind

I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long.

Cornelia Parker

Hair Haircut Long Always Being Fine

There's a lot of little 'Bonnie-isms' in 'Teenage Dream' that I was hoping to keep for myself.

Myself Dream Little Keep Teenage

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