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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.
Jacqueline Woodson
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Jacqueline Woodson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 12
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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'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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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've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.
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If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them. —Staggerlee
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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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But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.
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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 don't know how women stop being friends with other women.
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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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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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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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Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.
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When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.
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In all your getting, get understanding.
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