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Famous Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

“I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called.”

Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

“When there are many worlds
you can choose the one
you walk into each day.”

Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

“How can I explain to anyone that stories are like air to me, I breathe them in and let them out over and over again.”

Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

“You're a part of me… You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right?

—D”

Jacqueline Woodson book After Tupac and D Foster

Source: After Tupac and D Foster

“But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.”

Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

“Then I let the stories live
inside my head, again and again
until the real world fades back
into cricket lullabies
and my own dreams.”

Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson Quotes about people

“You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.”

Jacqueline Woodson

Source: The Dear One

“Sometimes… you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.”

Jacqueline Woodson

Source: Between Madison and Palmetto

“People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do… Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.”

Jacqueline Woodson

Source: The Dear One

“I think what happened was the language settled in me much deeper than it settled into people who just can read something once and absorb what they absorb of it. I feel like what I was absorbing was not by any means superficial. And I think I was - from a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for this deep understanding of the literature not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page…”

Jacqueline Woodson

On how she processed literature differently at an early age in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” https://www.npr.org/2016/10/14/497953254/jacqueline-woodson-on-growing-up-coming-out-and-saying-hi-to-strangers in NPR (2016 Oct 14)

Jacqueline Woodson Quotes about time

“I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.”

Jacqueline Woodson

Source: If You Come Softly

“Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.”

Jacqueline Woodson

Source: If You Come Softly

“The empty swing set reminds us of this--
that bad won't be bad forever,
and what is good can sometimes last
a long, long time.”

Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

“Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.”

Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

Silence

“In all your getting, get understanding.”

Jacqueline Woodson

Hush

Understanding

“I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much… so, so much.”

Jacqueline Woodson

Source: Maizon at Blue Hill

Death , Hope , Way , Star

“I feel like, as a person of color, I’ve always been kind of doing the work against the tide…I feel like change is coming, and change sometimes comes too slow for a lot of us. But it comes.”

Jacqueline Woodson

On writing in an industry that typically prefers White writers in “ Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/25/jacqueline-woodson-national-book-awards-invisible in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)

Personality , Change , Color , Feeling

“The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South. And the town we lived in - Nicholtown, which was a small community within Greenville, S. C.”

Jacqueline Woodson

was an all-black community. And people still lived very segregated lives, I think, because that was all they had always known. And there was still this kind of danger to integrating. So people kind of stayed in the places - the safe places that they had always known.
On still experiencing the aftereffects of segregation in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” https://www.npr.org/2016/10/14/497953254/jacqueline-woodson-on-growing-up-coming-out-and-saying-hi-to-strangers in NPR (2016 Oct 14)

Childhood , Communication