Angie Thomas
2 Articles
Last 30 days
Last 6 months
Last 12 months
Last 24 months
Specific Dates
From:
To:
On the Come Up: Angie Thomas's 2019 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Speech
Friends, homies, and everything in between, I am so sorry that I cannot be there with you tonight. When I got the news that On the Come Up was a Boston Globe–Horn Book honoree, I was stunned. Yes, even after everything I’ve experienced, I still get stunned. The last time I saw...
The Hate U Give: Angie Thomas's 2017 BGHB Fiction & Poetry Award Speech
I stand before you tonight, completely stunned that I’ve won anything for a book I was so afraid to write; a book that was inspired by someone as controversial as Tupac Shakur. I’m even more stunned that I wrote a book.This is possibly blasphemous to say, but as a teen...