- Mississippi is known for two things, racism and writing, and I happen to be a writer who writes about racism.
- [on why she writes for teens] The teens I write for are going to be politicians with Twitter accounts tomorrow. If some of our readers read books about black kids as teenagers, we wouldn't have to say Black Lives Matter - it would be understood. If they read about Latino kids, we wouldn't be discussing walls. People assume I want to put a political agenda into kids' heads. No. I want to install empathy in them.
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