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Walter Dean Myers Quotes
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When I began to read, I began to exist (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can’t read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they’re not going to be able to make it in our society (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
Wherever your heart rests There I will live and be blessed I’ve tried to line up the things I Needed to say but now my feelings just Tumble from me. I am half foolish, Half drunk with wanting you With wanting to take your hand And leap into the darkness of whatever Life will bring. Love makes me Brave and without love I’m made Nothing (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me... Forever in your warmth The place for me and you I feel the sun Our life’s just begun I know you feel it too (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don’t have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
To fight for one’s country, to offer one’s very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the ‘National Enquirer,’ I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I’ll be happy (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence? (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
Idiots don’t know they’re idiots, which is unfortunate (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
Each of us is born with a history already in place (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
One of the problems is that kids who don’t read - who are not doing well in school - they know they’re not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category. (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament. (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don’t really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children. (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn’t pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too. (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I’ve struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages. (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I’m not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I’m looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don’t see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don’t see how to get there. (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from ‘True Romance’ magazine. (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents. (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
People still try to sell books that way - as ‘books can take you to foreign lands.’ We’ve given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea. (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)