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

It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your "reporting" that you do.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

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

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

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.