We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.
Jacqueline WoodsonDon't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.
Jacqueline WoodsonWhere I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.
Jacqueline Woodson