“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.'”
"That’s what makes best friends. It’s not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts."
- Jacqueline Woodson
Relationships
"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."
- Jacqueline Woodson
Strength
"He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it—the ending and beginning of things."
- Jacqueline Woodson
Reflection
"He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it — the ending and beginning of things."
- Jacqueline Woodson
Reflection
"Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together."
- Jacqueline Woodson
Determination
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage