- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.
- Realize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want you to realize your voice matters.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a form of activism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trayvon Martin was 17, Mike Brown was young, Tamir Rice was 12. And so young people are affected by it, possibly the most affected, because they're seeing themselves.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Hogwarts houses are really gangs. They have their own colours, their own hideouts, and they are always riding for each other, like gangs.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people involved in the Black Lives Matter movement are actually sticking up for those other lives. They are turning out for their Muslim brothers and sisters who are now being targeted.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you say, 'Southern,' or you speak about a southern accent, there's always that drawl, and usually from white people. That's what people associate with the South. But we're all different. The black southern accent is different.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder and carrying it?' But if we just write the stories that we're supposed to write, that's when we have the biggest impact.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see organizations that target young black men to give them direction in life, but so often, black girls are missed. I wanted to represent them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to have a book that showed there's no one way to sound black. I wanted to tell teens that the way you speak is okay; you're good the way you are.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020