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I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 12
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
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Poetry
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We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.
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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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Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.
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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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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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For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.
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Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. —Margaret
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But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.
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I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
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There's me in every character I put on the pages.
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In all your getting, get understanding.
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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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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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I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.
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I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.
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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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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 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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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 believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.
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