Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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playing Pictionary with his wife and some friends
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
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They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.
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There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.
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We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.
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To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.
