When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was… — 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
I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Let me think Thinking is all I have If wisdom is a pretense Then let me pretend to be wise” — 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
