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Walter Dean Myers Quotes
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He’s an illustrator of children’s books (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
As a kid I didn’t see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn’t do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I think that if we can’t go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books... I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central... guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I think it’s difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They’re embarrassed to have people see them doing it (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
We all think we’re different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
If you know you don’t have a win, then there’s no use for you being in the game (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
Yeah, that’s funny, huh?... Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are (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)
I know I’m tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I’m just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can’t dig that? You think I want to live like I’m somebody’s throwaway? (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
Looks to me like you’ve been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me (Walter Dean Myers Quotes)