“I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three...” — Ann Aguirre Quote

“I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.”

“He is not the same person as when we”

“My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.”

“I don't want to sit there and compare to things I've gone through to what the Black player, the African-American player, goes through.”

“Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.”

“On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.”