Jacqueline Woodson

thumb|Jacqueline Woodson in 2018 Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. Quotes I realized the more specific the story, the more universal it becomes. "Tangent Talk with Jacqueline Woodson" in SAL/ON: A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures (2016 April 22) The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South. And the town we lived in - Nicholtown, which was a small community within Greenville, S.C. - was an all-black community. And people still lived very segregated lives, I think, because that was all they had always known. And there was still this kind of danger to integrating. So people kind of stayed in the places - the safe places that they had always known. On still experiencing the aftereffects of segregation in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” in NPR (2016 Oct 14) I think what happened was the language settled in me much deeper than it settled into people who just can read something once and absorb what they absorb of it. I feel like what I was absorbing was not by any means superficial. And I think I was - from a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for this deep understanding of the literature not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page… On how she processed literature differently at an early age in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” in NPR (2016 Oct 14) I feel like, as a person of color, I’ve always been kind of doing the work against the tide…I feel like change is coming, and change sometimes comes too slow for a lot of us. But it comes. On writing in an industry that typically prefers White writers in “Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25) I want it to be there for the people who need it. I don’t want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again. On what she hopes to accomplish with her work in “Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25) External links Jacqueline Woodson Category:20th-century African-American women Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Young adult authors Category:Children's authors Category:LGBT people Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century African-American women