Walter Dean Myers Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Dream, Garbage Cans, Curls

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• 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.

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  Player, Color, League

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Biddy Owens". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Eleanore S. Tyson, www.scholastic.com.

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• Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.

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  Monsters, Stories, Sometimes

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• Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

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  Enemy, Easy, Said

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Loving Someone, Trying

  Walter Dean Myers (2009). “Riot”, p.135, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

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  Brain, Unhappy, Looks

  Walter Dean Myers (2009). “Street Love”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• 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

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  Space, Forever, Want

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• I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

  Walter Dean Myers

  People, Loud, Embarrassed

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• 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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• That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Waiting, Want, Ready

  Walter Dean Myers (1996). “Slam!”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Mess

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• We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Reading, Kids, Medicine

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• 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

  Country, War, Fighting

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

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  Night, Light, Helping

  Walter Dean Myers (2009). “Monster”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Book, Upset

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• 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.

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  War, Sacrifice, People

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• As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

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  Children, Reading, Responsibility

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Real, Used

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• No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.

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  Basketball, Heart, Important

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• Each of us is born with a history already in place

  Walter Dean Myers

  Born

  Walter Dean Myers (2009). “Bad Boy: A Memoir”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• 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?

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  Tired, Thinking, Should Have

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• 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.

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  Fall, School, Mean

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• 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.

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  Blessed, Heart, Hands

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• There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

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  Reading, Community, Certain

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• Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

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  Violence, Happened, Happenings

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