Jacqueline Woodson Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• In all your getting, get understanding.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Understanding

  Jacqueline Woodson (2006). “Hush”, p.91, Penguin

• From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Reading, Deep Understanding, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

• I 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

  Men, Thinking, White Man

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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 Woodson

  Moving, Understanding, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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