I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.

I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.

And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.

I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.