You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.

There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change I can and do the work I need to do through this gift I've been given.

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.