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The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long to see themselves in stories. To see their identities and perspectives—their avatars—on the page. Not as issues to be addressed or as icons for social commentary, but simply as people who get to do cool things in amazing worlds. Yes, all the “issue” books are great and have a place in literature, but it's a different and wildly joyous gift to find yourself on the pages of an entertainment, experiencing the thrills and chills of a world more adventurous than our own. And when you see that as a writer, you quickly realize that you don't want to be the jerk who says to a young reader, “Sorry, kid. You don't get to exist in story; you're too different.” You don't want to be part of our present dystopia that tells kids that if they just stopped being who they are they could have a story written about them, too. That's the role of the bad guy in the dystopian stories, right? Given a choice, I'd rather be the storyteller who says every kid can have a chance to star. - posted at Kirkus Review in post "Straight-Laced Dystopias


Paolo Bacigalupi


#lgbtq #minorities #representation #teens #writing

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.


John Acton


#certain #country #enjoyed #free #judge

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.


Gwendolyn Brooks


#less #minorities #minority #people #reference

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.


Zora Neale Hurston


#minorities #national #other #problem #race

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." [Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945]


George Orwell


#freedom #freedom-of-speech #liberty #minorities #persecution

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.


Harold Washington


#assets #day #every #every day #face

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.


Diane Watson


#does #income #larger #makes #married

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.


Tom Allen


#argument #because #bogus #claim #completely

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.


Dennis Prager


#america #arts #culture #deeply #doing

I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.


Bryan Singer


#alone #awkward #because #being #else






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