Walter Dean Myers Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Book, Common Humanity

  "Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?" by Walter Dean Myers, www.nytimes.com. March 15, 2014.

• 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

  Book, People, Needs

• 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

  Ideas, Black, Excellence

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