Walter Dean Myers Quotes - Page 3

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• If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Mean, Gay, Life Is

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• 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

  Meaningful, Children, Book

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• How deep is your game?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Games

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• 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.

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  People, Our Society, Able

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• 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

  Military, War, Thinking

  "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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• And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become a shining star, a burning nova Exploded with love Flying through an endlessly Expanding universe Away from the me that was Toward a me that is beyond Understanding.

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  Stars, Expanding Universe, Shining

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• I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Dinner, Poet, Enjoy

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• I write in a small office at home.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Home, Writing, Office

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• What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Looks, Mint

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• I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Adventure, Magazines, Stuff

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• My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Dad, Years, Corporations

  "To Do Well In Life, You Have To 'Read Well'". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 10, 2012.

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• My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

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  Cutting, Life Is, Jagged Edge

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• New York is my favorite city.

  Walter Dean Myers

  New York, Cities, My Favorite

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• 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

  Heart, Years, Stories

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• 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

  Kids, Cowboy, Color

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

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• Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin

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  Mother, Song, Sweet

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• Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Past, Needs, Helping

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• If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Winning, Games, Use

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• 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.

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  Mom, Children, Emotional

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• 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

  Notebook, Exercise, Self

  "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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• he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

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  Trying, Guilty, Convince

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• 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.

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  Real, Wish, Way

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• 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

  Birthday, Sibling, War

  "A Conversation With Walter Dean Myers About Sunrise Over Fallujah". Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

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  Children, Athlete, Lawyer

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• Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Idiot, Unfortunate, Knows

  Walter Dean Myers (2013). “Darius & Twig”, p.7, Harper Collins

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