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Somewhere in my braineach laugh, tear and lullaby
becomes memory. — Jacqueline Woodson
Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.
— Jacqueline Woodson
The mere imparting of information is not education.
— Carter G. Woodson
Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side - if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.
— 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
If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them. - Staggerlee — Jacqueline Woodson
The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.
— Ali-Ollie Woodson
That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.
— Jacqueline Woodson
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. — Jacqueline Woodson
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
— 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
So this is what he believes inyour hands in the cool dirt
until the earth gives back to you
all that you've asked of it. — Jacqueline Woodson
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
— Carter G. Woodson
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
— 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 strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
— Carter G. Woodson
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
— Carter G. Woodson
For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.
— Carter G. Woodson
Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
— Carter G. Woodson
The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
— Carter G. Woodson
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
— Carter G. Woodson
Sometimes people don't get a chance to say good-bye, Stag.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Do you remember?' Someone's always asking and
someone else, always does — Jacqueline Woodson
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.
— Jacqueline Woodson
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
— Carter G. Woodson
The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.
— Jacqueline Woodson
They're all inside of us, ... past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.
— Jacqueline Woodson
No past. No future. Just this perfect Now.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Everyone elsehas gone away.
And now coming back home
isn't really coming back home at all. — Jacqueline Woodson
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,
— Jacqueline Woodson
I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them then blow gently, watch them float right out of my hands.
— Jacqueline Woodson
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
— Carter G. Woodson
And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone. — Jacqueline Woodson
Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.
— Jacqueline Woodson
In all your getting, get understanding.
— Jacqueline Woodson
I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking.- Lena — Jacqueline Woodson
know now that what is tragic isn't the moment. It is the memory.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone - adults promising us their own failed future.
— Jacqueline Woodson
In a time when, as Woodson puts it, 'book sales trump the quality of ideas...
— Joseph A. Tainter
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
— Carter G. Woodson
Then I let the stories liveinside my head, again and again
until the real world fades back
into cricket lullabies
and my own dreams. — Jacqueline Woodson
I have all this stuff - all these thoughts going on inside me and they all seem so - so dangerous. - Tyler — Jacqueline Woodson
And it's not even strange that it feels the way it's always felt like the place we belong to. Like home.
— Jacqueline Woodson
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.
— Jacqueline Woodson
This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
— Jacqueline Woodson
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
Let us banish fear.
— Carter G. Woodson
Cooperation implies equality of the participants in the particular task at hand.
— Carter G. Woodson
Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time - when I was young and free and living.
— Jacqueline Woodson
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.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.
— Ali-Ollie Woodson
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
— Carter G. Woodson
But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly
never dies. — 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
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
I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers.
— Jacqueline Woodson
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies?
— 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
You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.
— 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
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
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
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 askwhenever 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
We knew Down South. Everyone had one. Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico.
— Jacqueline Woodson
This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.
— Jacqueline Woodson
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
— Carter G. Woodson
You're a part of me ... You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right?- D — Jacqueline Woodson
My mother has a gap betweenher two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.
Each child in this family has the same space
connecting us. — Jacqueline Woodson
When there are many worldsyou can choose the one
you walk into each day. — Jacqueline Woodson
No man knows what he can do until he tries.
— Carter G. Woodson
I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.
— Jacqueline Woodson
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
— Carter G. Woodson
Probably still believed that if you wished hard enough you could make the impossible happen.
— Jacqueline Woodson
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
— Jacqueline Woodson
We don't know to be sad, the weight of our grandparents' love like a blanket with us beneath it, safe and warm.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Even the silence has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen. — Jacqueline Woodson
The empty swing set reminds us of thisthat bad won't be bad forever,
and what is good can sometimes last
a long, long time. — Jacqueline Woodson
You must give your own story to the world.
— Carter G. Woodson
My sister's clear soft voice opens up the world to me. I lean in so hungry for it.
— Jacqueline Woodson
My mamma says I shouldn't go on the other side ... My mama says the same thing. But she never said nothing about sitting on it
— Jacqueline Woodson
I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to learn better.
— Carter G. Woodson
