Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
War is what happens when language fails.
I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.