Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming

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  • Carolahas quoted4 years ago
    Because you’re colored, my grandfather says.

    And just as good and bright and beautiful and free

    as anybody.

    And nobody colored in the South is stopping,

    my grandfather says,

    until everybody knows what’s true.
  • Carolahas quoted4 years ago
    , my grandmother says.

    Best not to ask for more than that.

    Hmph, my grandfather says. And goes back

    to working the land, pulling from it all we need

    and more than that.
  • Carolahas quoted4 years ago
    And when we are called by our names

    my grandmother

    makes them all one

    HopeDellJackie

    but my grandfather

    takes his sweet time, saying each

    as if he has all day long

    or a whole lifetime.
  • Carolahas quoted4 years ago
    Your brother

    my mother heard her own mother say

    and then there was only a roaring in the air around her

    a new pain where once there wasn’t pain

    a hollowness where only minutes before

    she had been whole.
  • Carolahas quoted4 years ago
    Somewhere in my brain

    each laugh, tear and lullaby

    becomes memory.
  • Carolahas quoted4 years ago
    You’ll face this in your life someday,

    my mother will tell us

    over and over again.

    A moment when you walk into a room and

    no one there is like you.

    It’ll be scary sometimes. But think of William Woodson

    and you’ll be all right.
  • Carolahas quoted4 years ago
    This is the way,my mother said,

    of every baby’s hand.

    I do not know if these hands will become

    Malcolm’s—raised and fisted

    or Martin’s—open and asking

    or James’s—curled around a pen.

    I do not know if these hands will be

    Rosa’s

    or Ruby’s

    gently gloved

    and fiercely folded

    calmly in a lap,

    on a desk,

    around a book,

    ready

    to change the world . . .
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