For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.
Jacqueline WoodsonOne place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.
Jacqueline WoodsonI have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, "How could that possibly be?"
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