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Books Quotes by Walter Dean Myers
- I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books.…
- It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who…
- Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
- What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and…
- 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…
- 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…
- I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag…
- I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book.…
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- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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