I hadn't meant to tell you this
I hadn't meant to tell you this by Jacqueline Woodson is a 1994 Society & Culture book written by TED speaker Jacqueline Woodson, paired here with the talk they gave.
Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.
The paired TED talk
What reading slowly taught me about writing (2019), the TED talk by Jacqueline Woodson.
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