Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
My mom was very strict. And we were very religious. So I knew that I was not allowed to do the wrong thing. And I knew that I had a home I could run to. And I had a mom.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Making music is fantastic.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
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My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
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The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasn't lying in bed.
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I was really lucky to have been raised in this really powerful matriarchy where my dad was around, but I was with my mom and my grandma most of the time. They were heavy influences on me. My mother has a career in technology; my grandma sold real estate.
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My mom was very strict. And we were very religious. So I knew that I was not allowed to do the wrong thing. And I knew that I had a home I could run to. And I had a mom.
