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, "on paper" from Brown Girl Dreaming. Copyright © 2014 by Jacqueline Woodson. Used by permission of Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Source:
Brown Girl Dreaming
(Nancy Paulsen Books, 2014)
