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)
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