on paper

 

The first time I write my full name

 

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson

 

without anybody’s help

on a clean white page in my composition notebook,

I know

 

if I wanted to

 

I could write anything.

 

Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning,

becoming

thoughts outside my head

 

becoming sentences

 

written by

 

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson

 

Jacqueline Woodson (USA, 1963 -)

 

“on paper” from Brown Girl Dreaming. Copyright © 2014 by Jacqueline Woodson, Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin Young Readers Group, Penguin Random House LLC)

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2014)

 

To learn more about the author: http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/

 

To buy the book: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/304851/brown-girl-dreaming-by-jacqueline-woodson/9780147515827/

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