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If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them. —Staggerlee

Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 12
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
Enough
Would
World
Anywhere
Loved
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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.
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I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.
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I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.
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Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.
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I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.
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In all your getting, get understanding.
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I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.
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Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
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No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.
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I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.
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Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.
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Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.
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Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.
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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.
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I definitely believe in a greater good. I definitely believe that there's a reason each of us is here and that we've been brought here to do something. And we need to get busy doing it. And I definitely believe that there is something moving us forward that's good.
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That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.
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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.
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Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.
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I have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, How could that possibly be?
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I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.
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