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Woodson’s lyrical storytelling shines in these short observations on memory, offering a tender, inclusive view of what we hold onto.

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My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda…

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I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world…

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

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

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Sometimes, when I'm sitting at my desk for long hours and nothing's coming to me, I remember my fifth-grade teacher, the way…

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“In our yearbook, there is a picture of me and Miah - sitting in Central Park - Miah has his lips poked…

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

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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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