327 Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

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

Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood and into your adulthood that is not necessarily who you are.

Reading equals hope times change.

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

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.

If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.