Jacqueline Woodson

My family is big, complicated, and beautiful - and keeps me smiling and whole. It's so important to have family, whether it's biological family, good friends, foster families, or a group of aunties who are raising you. The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.