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It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.
Rumaan Alam
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It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination. — Rumaan Alam

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Rumaan Alam was a Author from United States (1977–present).

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Rumaan Alam lived from 1977 – present.
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