Quotes About Angie Thomas

Bent Literary Agency had a Q&A on Twitter, and I took a chance and asked if the Black Lives Matter movement was an appropriate topic for a YA novel. Brooks Sherman, who is now my agent, responded that he didn't think any topics were inappropriate for YA. I remember being so terrified even just sending the tweet.

I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.