"Why is diversity in books important? Diversity is not important. Diversity is reality. Human beings..."

“Why is diversity in books important? Diversity is not important. Diversity is reality. Human beings are not all the same. We come from many different places and have many different identities and experiences. Having only one kind of human being in the stories being told is flat-out bad storytelling. Diversity is reality. Let’s stop erasing that.”

- Malinda Lo, in response to a reader’s question about the importance of diversity (via bostonpoetryslam)