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• ‟ I don't want to bring negative energy to myself, and if people feel one way about me, I don't want that changing how I feel or what I believe.

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• ‟ My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.

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• ‟ When I speak at events, I often wear my dad's ties and my mom's earrings. It's a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I'm up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe.

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• ‟ I have some friends who love to perform and wish they were getting the attention I am getting. But that doesn't stop them from supporting me.

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• ‟ My parents taught me the importance of telling the truth no matter what.

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• ‟ I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives.

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• ‟ It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.

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• ‟ I have had the same friends for a really long time, and I like them because they like some of the stuff I like, but they are also really different from me.

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• ‟ I love YouTube. You can find me there watching cat videos. I even like to watch other people play video games. I know it's a bit creepy, but it's my thing.

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• ‟ I think writing gives me creative freedom.

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• ‟ Fashion is very important to me. I dress androgynously - I absolutely despise dresses and skirts and tights - and I started wearing glasses in the third grade.

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