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She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight.
perhaps the best line from Shooter — Walter Dean Myers

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

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us. — Walter Dean Myers

Think about all the tomorrows of your life. — Walter Dean Myers

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

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel. — Walter Dean Myers

Let me think
Thinking is all I have
If wisdom is a pretense
Then let me pretend to be wise — Walter Dean Myers

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer. — Walter Dean Myers

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence? — Walter Dean Myers

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

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war. — Walter Dean Myers

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

Reading is not optional. — Walter Dean Myers

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct. — Walter Dean Myers

Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge. — Walter Dean Myers

Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble. — Walter Dean Myers

Yeah, that's funny, huh? ... Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are. — Walter Dean Myers

She is the only rose that doesn't smell of plastic — Walter Dean Myers

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

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

How deep is your game? — Walter Dean Myers

Each of us is born with a history already in place — Walter Dean Myers

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries. — Walter Dean Myers

The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible. — Walter Dean Myers

once i began to read I began to exist — Walter Dean Myers

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help. — Walter Dean Myers

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

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

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

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me. — Walter Dean Myers

If I'm going to have a fight I got to see the win in it so I'll know what I'm fighting for. — Walter Dean Myers

New York is my favorite city. — Walter Dean Myers

We dreamed a lot of good stuff. Marriage and forever and ever and that kind of thing. It meant everything to me. Not just a lot. Everything. — Walter Dean Myers

Many teens will see themselves in Myers' account. — Walter Dean Myers

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.'
- Fletch — Walter Dean Myers

When we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way. — Walter Dean Myers

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were. — Walter Dean Myers

Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life. — Walter Dean Myers

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened. — Walter Dean Myers

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken — Walter Dean Myers

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

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. — Walter Dean Myers

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine. — Walter Dean Myers

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment. — Walter Dean Myers

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. — Walter Dean Myers

The ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live. — Walter Dean Myers

Sometimes, when things look terrible ... you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great. — Walter Dean Myers

You're not getting in anything, so between us it's going to be outcest, and that's just another word for friendship.
- Jocelyn Lawson — Walter Dean Myers

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate. — Walter Dean Myers

He was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty. — Walter Dean Myers

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

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it. — Walter Dean Myers

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head. — Walter Dean Myers

I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that? — Walter Dean Myers

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about. — Walter Dean Myers

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities. — Walter Dean Myers

I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me. — Walter Dean Myers

Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor. — Walter Dean Myers

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

Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in. — Walter Dean Myers

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens. — Walter Dean Myers

I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school. — Walter Dean Myers

The beast is the monster that destroys your dream — Walter Dean Myers

Things that matter in the morning somehow don't matter in the afternoon. — Walter Dean Myers

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers

I am too real not to know that real will kill me
I am too street not to know what the streets hold
for me — Walter Dean Myers

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it. — Walter Dean Myers

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read. — Walter Dean Myers

My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury. — Walter Dean Myers