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Жакли́н Ву́дсон — американская писательница и поэтесса, автор книг для детей и юношества. Лауреат многочисленных американских и международных литературных премий. Национальный посол по юношеской литературе библиотеки Конгресса США. Wikipedia  

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“I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called.”

Jacqueline Woodson книга Brown Girl Dreaming

Источник: Brown Girl Dreaming

“When there are many worlds
you can choose the one
you walk into each day.”

Jacqueline Woodson книга Brown Girl Dreaming

Источник: Brown Girl Dreaming

“Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.”

Jacqueline Woodson книга Brown Girl Dreaming

Источник: Brown Girl Dreaming

“But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.”

Jacqueline Woodson книга Brown Girl Dreaming

Источник: Brown Girl Dreaming

“You're a part of me… You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right?

—D”

Jacqueline Woodson книга After Tupac and D Foster

Источник: After Tupac and D Foster

“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'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/25/jacqueline-woodson-national-book-awards-invisible in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)

“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” https://www.npr.org/2016/10/14/497953254/jacqueline-woodson-on-growing-up-coming-out-and-saying-hi-to-strangers in NPR (2016 Oct 14)