Quotes from Brown Girl Dreaming that show resiliency eight page numbers

You’ll face this in your lives someday... A moment when you walk into a room and no one there is like you.
-- Mary Ann Woodson (Part I, It’ll Be Scary Sometimes paragraph 7)

Importance: Mary Ann reminds Jackie that her ancestor, William Woodson, was the only black child in an all-white class, and that Jackie will one day face a similar situation. Here, Mary Ann speaks not only of race, but of anything that may make Jackie different from everyone else. In a family full of doctors, lawyers, and professionals, Jackie will want to become a writer –something different from everyone else.