The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.
タグ: important, better, great, history

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Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.
タグ: something, book, time, you
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
タグ: us, diversity, together, world, walk
Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do.
タグ: young, everything, say, people
In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You never get a sense of a future self because the young person has not lived that yet.
タグ: children, future, moment, you
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.
タグ: literature, children, world, love
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