Nothing exists without its opposite.

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.