Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
Top 72 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.
Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side - if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
When I took these things from the house:
some tapes, some books, my winter clothes,
I did not know that these would become the
things I own.
some tapes, some books, my winter clothes,
I did not know that these would become the
things I own.
So this is what he believes in
your hands in the cool dirt
until the earth gives back to you
all that you've asked of it.
your hands in the cool dirt
until the earth gives back to you
all that you've asked of it.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
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.
Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time - when I was young and free and living.
Wasn't afraid of dying because dying had always been somewhere in our house, somewhere so close, we could feel the wind of it on our cheeks.
And it's not even strange that it feels the way it's always felt like the place we belong to. Like home.
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,
But it's what the world does to people. It makes some of us feel ugly and it makes some of us look like criminals, like angry fools.
They're all inside of us, ... past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.
I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be.
No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.
Maybe, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this, in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered.
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.
And freedom? Oh, freedom.
Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
We don't know to be sad, the weight of our grandparents' love like a blanket with us beneath it, safe and warm.
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.
inside my head, again and again
until the real world fades back
into cricket lullabies
and my own dreams.
I have all this stuff - all these thoughts going on inside me and they all seem so - so dangerous.
- Tyler
- Tyler
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity.
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do ... Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.
My whole family knows I can't sing. My voice, my sister says, is just left of the key. Just right of the tune. But I sing anyway, whenever I can.
Will the words end, I ask
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity.
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity.
Some days I just think the whole world and life and everything is stupid. And that's 'cause I be missing you.
Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind.
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind.
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them then blow gently, watch them float right out of my hands.
This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.
My mother has a gap between
her two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.
Each child in this family has the same space
connecting us.
her two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.
Each child in this family has the same space
connecting us.
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.
that bad won't be bad forever,
and what is good can sometimes last
a long, long time.