I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.
Interpretation
The quote expresses admiration for the abundance of love found in young adult and children's literature.
Jacqueline Woodson highlights the rich emotional landscape present in young adult and children's literature, emphasizing that these stories often center around themes of love, connection, and empathy. This genre serves as a vital space for young readers to explore their own feelings and the complexities of relationships, showcasing the transformative power of love in storytelling.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of reading, one might use this quote to highlight the emotional impact of literature on young minds.
'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.
I don't want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again.
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.'
I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside a desk drawer that my own children pulled out one day to find a tool for survival, a symbol of how strong we are and how much we've come through.
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly _x000D_ themselves.
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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