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Jacqueline Woodson [1963-0] American

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Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac & D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way.

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Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.		101
I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.		102
I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.		103
I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.		104
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.		105
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.		106
The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.		107
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.		108
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.		109
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.		110

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