Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
Jacqueline WoodsonThere is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
Jacqueline WoodsonI have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, "How could that possibly be?"
Jacqueline WoodsonI think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.
Jacqueline Woodson