Jacqueline Woodson

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.