...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

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

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.