Jacqueline Woodson

“I’ve always loved words. I’ve always loved telling stories. I’ve loved just the magic of ( that) you can put letter together and they make words.” Monica talks to award winning author Jacqueline Woodson about her new memoir -Brown Girl Dreaming. “I wanted to find the stories before I didn’t have access to them anymore….Discovering how much love was in my family and how hard we had to work to basically get through the day as an African American in a country that is not very loving to them.”