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• ‟ I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.

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• ‟ People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.

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• ‟ I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

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• ‟ I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

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• ‟ I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

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• ‟ And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

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• ‟ I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

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• ‟ I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

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• ‟ With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

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• ‟ I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

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