Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Blood and Bone' is basically 'Black Panther' with magic.

I want to give something to the world that I feel I missed out on as a child, and I want to help people of all races, ethnicities, and orientations understand that no matter what differences we may think we have, everyone is a human, and everyone deserves to be respected and valued.

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.

In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was.

My freshman year of college, 'The Hunger Games' movie adaptation came out, and I was really excited about it. This was maybe 2011. I loved it, but there was a lot of hateful backlash against the black characters in the film.