Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
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If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
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Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.
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All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
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The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.
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A word in the head is worth two in the book.
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The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
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I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.
