We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Go. Think. Turn black into white. Night into day. I am tired of thinking. I know where it will lead me and… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“We dreamed a lot of good stuff. Marriage and forever and ever and that kind of thing. It meant everything to me.… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Love came easy, but it just wasn't for me. It flew away like swallows on a summer evening. Love sang softly, but… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Love came to me, but it Just wasn't for me. It touched my heart and left it Lying on the shore, and… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that.” — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
