I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world -… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I don't want my kids to have to walk through a world where they have to constantly explain who they are and… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee — 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
I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of… — 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
Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think it's so important that, if I'm writing about the real world, I stay true to it. I think that kids… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
My family is big, complicated, and beautiful - and keeps me smiling and whole. It's so important to have family, whether it's… — 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
Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges. — 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
There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't… — 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
