Taye Diggs pens children's book

Taye Diggs is speaking out!
The 40-year-old actor who raises two-year old son Walker with wife Idina Menzel opened up to Parade magazine about what he gets up to when he’s not steaming up the silver screen!
Diggs has just released his new children’s book, Chocolate Me.
“This book is based on a poem I wrote back in college,” he said.
“I remembered being 5-years-old and moving into this neighborhood where none of the kids looked like me and were very inquisitive. Questioning why I looked the way I looked and why my hair was the way it was. I remember feeling really awkward, like I didn’t fit in. My best friend Shane Evans is a very established publisher and had published other children’s books and he thought this concept would make a good one. We just joined forces and put a mockup together and took it to some places and here were are. It’s great working as best friends on something that means so much to us, like self-esteem and self-awareness, especially at this time of bullying. I wrote the book to my kid.
“Shane has a bevy of amazing and interesting characters and stories that are in the same kind of realm of making kids not feel weird about being exposed to certain problems. So we want to build a company around that an ethnic Disney where we can come up with all of these characters. Then we’ll work our way up to animated things and lunchboxes and musicals. We’d love to start moving in that direction. That’s the big dream. It would be called Walk Tall production after my son.”