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A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

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

“That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

“And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

— Jacqueline Woodson

You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“They're all inside of us,...past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

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