I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
Jacqueline WoodsonLately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them togetherโmake myself into one whole person like everybody else.
Jacqueline WoodsonI actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.
Jacqueline Woodson