"Stories are powerful. The books I read when I was ten and eleven years old are the books that taught..."

“Stories are powerful. The books I read when I was ten and eleven years old are the books that taught me who I wanted to be. So read widely. Read books about characters whose lives are just like yours and books about characters whose lives are hard to imagine. Stories will help you understand yourself and help you to imagine what it might be like to be somebody else. That’s empathy, and if you build that muscle, we’re going to end up with a better, braver, kinder world because of it.”

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