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I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

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I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.

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I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.

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I think that's important: to know 'the other,' as a means of coming to understanding.

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In the daytime, I was expected to be the straight-A student. I was expected to be college bound. I was expected to be a great big sister. And then at night, I was just a club kid.

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Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do.

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I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.

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My writing is inspired by where I come from, where I am today, and where I hope to go some day.

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My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda Woodson. I just loved the power of that, of being able to put a letter on the page and that letter meaning something.

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The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 12th, 1963

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