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I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.

Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 12
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
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Friends
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There's me in every character I put on the pages.
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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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I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.
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But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.
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Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.
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If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them. —Staggerlee
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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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I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.
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I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.
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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 remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?
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