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The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.

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Jacqueline Woodson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 12
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Ohio
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When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.
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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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There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
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Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.
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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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When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.
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I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with. And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.
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I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.
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Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.
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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 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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But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.
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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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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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I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and that you have to have this information. You have to know about meter, you have to know about form, you have to know about iambic pentameter, and all of that.
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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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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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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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Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
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I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.
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