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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. She was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018–19.

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I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

Close, Friends, Heterosexuality, People, Thinking

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

Fiction, Instead, Lying, Say, Teacher, Writing

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

Look, Looks, Sound, Way, Writing

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

Brain, Mama, People, Snobby, Thinking

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

Book, Part, People, Think, Thinking

When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.

Children, Events, Everything, Glasses, Obscured, Thinking

As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.

Deconstruct, Hard Times, Human, Language, Tools

For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.

Ground, Kind, Moving, Understanding, Way, Writer

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off. . . and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a. . . to get some kind of foothold on living

Fast, Foothold, Kind, Spinning, Trying, World

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.

Gone, Hey, Life, Missing, Say, Thinking

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

Butterfly, Dies, Forever, Paper

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

Book, Books, Favorite, My Favorite, Something New, Time

A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.

Book, Books, Hands, People, Revisions, Stage

There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change I can and do the work I need to do through this gift I've been given.

Change, Done, Left, Needs, World

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Deeply, Dream, Full, People, Reading, Rooms

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

Character, Pages

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.

Cadence, Drop, Our Words, Rhythm, The End Of The Day

To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

Appreciate, Front, Home, Same, Watches

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

Happens, Life, Like, Seems, Starts, Straightening

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

Character, Characters, Think, Thinking, Writing

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