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I think when I was a young person, there was just kind of - there was very little dialogue about it. And there was just kind of one way to be gay, right? You saw very effeminate guys. You saw very butch women. And there was no kind of in-between. And there was no - you know, there wasn't anything in the media. There wasn't anything on television.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Tags: gay, think, you, women

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Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.
— Jacqueline Woodson
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Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Tags: us, diversity, together, world, walk
Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do.
— Jacqueline Woodson
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In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You never get a sense of a future self because the young person has not lived that yet.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Tags: children, future, moment, you
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Tags: literature, children, world, love
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