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I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 12
Novelist
Poet
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Columbus
Ohio
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Prose
Poetry
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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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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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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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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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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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Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
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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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Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.
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I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
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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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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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Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.
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I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.
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I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.
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From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page.
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The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.
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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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If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them. —Staggerlee
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I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.
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