From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun Quotes

“Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

“And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk out loud the way I write things down. I wish I didn't always feel like I was on the outside, looking in like a Peeping Tom.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

“No one stops to think, though—that maybe there is a reason for the darkness. Maybe people have to be reminded of it—of its power. At night, we go to sleep against the darkness. And if we wake up before morning, a lot of times we're afraid. We need it all though—the darkness and the light.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

“People are so caught up in trying to force their own world onto everybody else’s that they don’t even get the fact that the other person doesn’t care.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun