Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.