I didn't know about them, and finding out was like pulling teeth.
"Jacqueline Woodson" is an American people/American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac & D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her work is filled with strong African-American themes, generally aimed at a young adult audience.
For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer, Woodson won the Margaret Edwards Award in 2005 and she was the U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014. IBBY named her one of six Andersen Award finalists on March 17, 2014. She won the National Book Award in 2014 in the category of "Young People's Literature" for her work Brown Girl Dreaming.
More Jacqueline Woodson on Wikipedia.People who don't know what it's like to be an African American don't understand that it's OK, ... I never want to be other than an African American.
Before Grandma died, she talked about family history in a way she had never done before, ... She was interested in family history, especially African American women.
I think it's important that everyday we think about the work we need to do to make this world a better place. I mean, we should wake up thinking about it and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's tasks. There's an awful lot of change needing to be made around here.
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