Hopeful stories for young readers

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about

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making work for young readers

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is that the work gets to be wonderful

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and whimsical

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and kind of hopeful and i really want to

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make work that shows young people that

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there

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are so many options and opportunities

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for them

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[Music]

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where i live where my palate is is black

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that the experiences that i see around

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me are

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black that the voices that i hear the

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songs that i hear

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the footsteps the the laughter

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the grown the quarrels the the

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expletives they're black

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and i try to trap them in a frame

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our culture has brought so much in terms

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of creativity

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in terms of connection and innovation so

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it's like to overlook that

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and to devalue that is just it's tragic

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and it lessens who we are as people

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as a whole so you know we we're here and

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because we're