People Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.

— Jacqueline Woodson

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

— Jacqueline Woodson

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,

— Jacqueline Woodson

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

— Jacqueline Woodson

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

— Jacqueline Woodson

In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in…

— Jacqueline Woodson

You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy…

— Jacqueline Woodson

People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on…

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write…

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think 'Miracle's Boys' made more people aware of my work.

— Jacqueline Woodson

People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

— Jacqueline Woodson

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that…

— Jacqueline Woodson