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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
Anywhere
Loved
Someone
Enough
Would
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But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.
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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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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 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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Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.
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I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.
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I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.
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I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.
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Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.
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You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?
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In all your getting, get understanding.
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When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.
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I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.
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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.
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I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.
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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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Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
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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.
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There's me in every character I put on the pages.
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