Friendship Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

9 Friendship quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson’s nine reflections on friendship feel like a gentle conversation over tea, each line infused with her signature empathy. Though brief, the collection captures the tender, everyday moments that define true companionship.

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

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I have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, "How could that possibly be?"

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In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

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Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to…

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That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school,…

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Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole…

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I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them…

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My family is big, complicated, and beautiful - and keeps me smiling and whole. It's so important to have family, whether it's…

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I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a…

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

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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…

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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…

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

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

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Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of the misogyny,…

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

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

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

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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.…

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

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

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When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it…

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