Walter Dean Myers Quotes - Page 4

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• America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Believe, America, World

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• 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

  Military, War, Iraq

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• People told me to give up trying to be special and settle down to a regular life. There ain't nothing wrong with a regular life, and that's the Lord's truth...but it wasn't for me, because I wanted to be something special. I knew how easy it was for a dream to die. I seen that all around me. You could let it die by just looking the other way.

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  Dream, Giving Up, People

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• Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Attitude, Dare

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• 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

  Stress, People, Trying

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• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  Walter Dean Myers

  War, Generations, Reason

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• 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

  Taken, Who I Am, Cities

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• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Years, Frustrated, Speech

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• 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

  Needs, Looks, Garbage

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• But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Pain, Forever, Shadow

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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

  Appreciation, Responsibility, Cowboy

  "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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• 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

  Children, People, Parent

  "The Importance of Literacy: A Q & A With Author Walter Dean Myers". Interview with Earl Martin Phalen, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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