Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents.

Quotes

 * The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South. And the town we lived in - Nicholtown, which was a small community within Greenville, S.C. - was an all-black community. And people still lived very segregated lives, I think, because that was all they had always known. And there was still this kind of danger to integrating. So people kind of stayed in the places - the safe places that they had always known.
 * On still experiencing the aftereffects of segregation in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” in NPR (2016 Oct 14)


 * I think what happened was the language settled in me much deeper than it settled into people who just can read something once and absorb what they absorb of it. I feel like what I was absorbing was not by any means superficial. And I think I was - from a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for this deep understanding of the literature not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page…
 * On how she processed literature differently at an early age in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” in NPR (2016 Oct 14)


 * I feel like, as a person of color, I’ve always been kind of doing the work against the tide…I feel like change is coming, and change sometimes comes too slow for a lot of us. But it comes.
 * On writing in an industry that typically prefers White writers in “Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)


 * I want it to be there for the people who need it. I don’t want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again.
 * On what she hopes to accomplish with her work in “Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)