327 Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

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

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I feel like it's our job to put that down on paper, and put it out into the world, so that it can be remembered.

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 was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

There's me in every character I put on the pages.