Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
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 her eyes lit up when she said, 'This is really good.'
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.
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At the root of everything I write is tragedy.
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CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.
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In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.
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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 her eyes lit up when she said, 'This is really good.'
