Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

Jacqueline Woodson — American Writer born on February 12, 1963,

Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac & D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way... (wikipedia)

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.