Parenting Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

8 Parenting quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson delivers eight poetic reflections that capture the nuanced emotions of family life. Her lyrical style turns everyday moments into resonant snapshots.

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We live inside our parents' backstory.

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“This is how the time moves - an hour here, a day somewhere, and then it's night and then it's morning. A…

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My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.

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I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was…

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Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

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“Thing about white people," Jeremiah's father tells him, "they know what everybody else is, but they don't know they're white" - "Maybe…

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The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who…

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“I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers.”

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

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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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