I’m an adult stutterer. When I was young, my stutter was so severe it was hard to verbally put together back-to-back sentences. I felt silenced. It was books that rescued me, gave me voice, even books that a person like me — a Black dude who grew up in poverty in the shadow of Jim Crow in the Deep South — supposedly might not connect with. But Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” allowed me to peek into worlds I never dreamed of, opening up my imagination in a way that’s been foundational for my writing and teaching pursuits as an author and college professor.

(SOURCE) https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/opinions/book-bans-hurt-kids-mark-twain-bailey/index.html