To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise, — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking. — 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
You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on… — 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… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like… — 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
