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Somewhere in my brain
each laugh, tear and lullaby
becomes memory. — Jacqueline Woodson

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out. — Jacqueline Woodson

The race needs workers, not leaders. — Carter G. Woodson

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people. — Carter G. Woodson

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom. — Carter G. Woodson

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking. — Jacqueline Woodson

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. — Jacqueline Woodson

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back. — Jacqueline Woodson

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

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies? — Jacqueline Woodson

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. — Carter G. Woodson

I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers. — Jacqueline Woodson

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. — Jacqueline Woodson

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one, — Charles Woodson

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

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. — Carter G. Woodson

I work hard, he says, I treat people like I want to be treated. God sees this, God knows. — Jacqueline Woodson

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains. — Carter G. Woodson

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

You're a part of me ... You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right?
- D — Jacqueline Woodson

Stories can be windows, but also mirrors. — Jacqueline Woodson

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories. — Jacqueline Woodson

Sometimes ... you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living. — Jacqueline Woodson

Will the words end, I ask
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity. — Jacqueline Woodson

Some days I just think the whole world and life and everything is stupid. And that's 'cause I be missing you. — Jacqueline Woodson

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? — Carter G. Woodson

They are anxious to have everything the white man has even if it is harmful. — Carter G. Woodson

She said she was going to live-that tomorrow wasn't guaranteed. — Jacqueline Woodson

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind. — Jacqueline Woodson

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. — Carter G. Woodson