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Danh ngôn của Jacqueline Woodson (Sứ mệnh: 4)

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.
Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.
The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, 'I'm getting my kids out of here. I'm creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary.'
The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.
The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.