“Some days I just think the whole world and life and everything is stupid. And that's 'cause I be missing you.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“That's good. Always take the time. You really never know when you're not going to have it anymore.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“...she said she was going to live-that tomorrow wasn't guaranteed.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time—when I was young and free and living.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Life...moves us through all the time changes. All kinds of changes. And we're made so that we roll and move with it.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
My grandparents were wealthy; my mom was not. I would walk into these worlds of privilege and then walk back into this… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Feels like I've known him since before he got to the world—longer than he knew himself, truthfully. Seems like we'd been friends… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy-how that was all that love was-ions connecting across synapses of time and… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
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… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
“That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of the misogyny,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
“And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
“They're all inside of us,...past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share
