You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D Jacqueline Woodson More Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson More Quotes From Jacqueline Woodson Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time? Jacqueline Woodson brain people thinking I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone. Jacqueline Woodson gone missing thinking Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere. Jacqueline Woodson sixteen fifteen I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry. Jacqueline Woodson ive-learned That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts. Jacqueline Woodson block heart school Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in. Jacqueline Woodson mama listening mean No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears. Jacqueline Woodson cry tears matter Nothing in the world is like this- Jacqueline Woodson white blue moving Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, Jacqueline Woodson knowing feelings writing I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing. Jacqueline Woodson southern silence thinking I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena Jacqueline Woodson broke heart thinking You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then? Jacqueline Woodson wall tears want Where 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 black people looks If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee Jacqueline Woodson ifs enough world I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong? Jacqueline Woodson dad mom mother I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay. It's funny how we never know exactly how our life will go It's funny how a dream can fade with the break of day. Time can't erase the memory and time can't bring you home Last Summer was a part of me and now a part is gone. —Margaret Jacqueline Woodson summer dream memories Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours. Jacqueline Woodson ugly mother said Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. —Margaret Jacqueline Woodson able lasts summer I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic. Jacqueline Woodson without-hope optimistic thinking The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated. Jacqueline Woodson bigs want people
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