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" All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them. "
Voice
Talk
Listen
" Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older. "
Older
Be Kind
Kind
" Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring. "
Why
Say
Write
" I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures. "
Believe
Teachers
Most
" I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old. "
Children
Family
Old
" I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers. "
Plan
Home
Walk
" I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well! "
Old
Reading
Words
" I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of your hair or your eyes. Well, I dye my hair, so maybe that's not the best example. But your eyes! "
Believe
Change
Eyes
" I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important. "
Children
Fish
Color
" I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings. "
Life
Effort
Know
" I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there. "
Caring
Wonderful
Will
" I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life. "
Mom
My Life
Farm
" I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true. "
Truth
Journey
Justice
" I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. "
Good
Writing
Reading
" Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another? "
Me
Understand
Why
" My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact. "
Family
Understand
Sometimes
" My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities. "
Life
Own
Daily Life
" My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History. "
Art
School
Reading
" My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad. "
Father
Parents
School
" My stories are fundamentally about the love of family. "
About
Stories
Love
" My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings. "
Well
Multicultural
Stories
" Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner. "
Mothers
Tell
Think
" Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist. "
Story
Exist
Show
" Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed. "
Think
Believe
Respect
" What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike! "
People
Colors
Ideas
" When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time. "
Time
Money
Growing Up
" When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories. "
Come
Family
Just
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