Jacqueline Woodson: Living

Jacqueline Woodson is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on living.
Jacqueline Woodson: 36   quotes 3   likes

“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

World , Dreams

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

Jacqueline Woodson

Source: Between Madison and Palmetto

Love , People , Forgetting

“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