We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Told a lot of stories as a child. Not 'Once upon a time' stories but, basically, outright lies. I loved lying and… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything… — 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
I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other. — 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 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 Image
I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
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 Image
