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Walter Dean Myers quotes: She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight.perhaps the best line from Shooter She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight.
perhaps the best line from Shooter
Walter Dean Myers quotes: America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Think about all the tomorrows of your life. Think about all the tomorrows of your life.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: My life is not packaged,Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jaggedEdges that cut even my friends. My life is not packaged,
Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged
Edges that cut even my friends.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise Let me think
Thinking is all I have
If wisdom is a pretense
Then let me pretend to be wise
Walter Dean Myers quotes: As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer. As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence? 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 quotes: People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that. 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 quotes: Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war. Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense. 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 quotes: Reading is not optional. Reading is not optional.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble. Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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. 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 quotes: She is the only rose that doesn't smell of plastic She is the only rose that doesn't smell of plastic
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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? 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 quotes: If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game. If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: How deep is your game? How deep is your game?
Walter Dean Myers quotes: Each of us is born with a history already in place Each of us is born with a history already in place
Walter Dean Myers quotes: I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries. I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible. The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: once i began to read I began to exist once i began to read I began to exist
Walter Dean Myers quotes: The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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? 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 quotes: My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read. 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 quotes: Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me. Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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. 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 quotes: New York is my favorite city. New York is my favorite city.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Many teens will see themselves in Myers' account. Many teens will see themselves in Myers' account.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' - Fletch 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 quotes: When we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way. When we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life. 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 quotes: Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened. Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine. Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: The ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live. The ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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 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 quotes: Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate. Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: He was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty. He was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain. But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it. 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 quotes: I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head. I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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 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 quotes: With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about. With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities. There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me. I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor. Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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 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 quotes: Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The beast is the monster that destroys your dream The beast is the monster that destroys your dream
Walter Dean Myers quotes: Things that matter in the morning somehow don't matter in the afternoon. Things that matter in the morning somehow don't matter in the afternoon.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
Walter Dean Myers quotes: I am too real not to know that real will kill meI am too street not to know what the streets holdfor me 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 quotes: All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it. 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 quotes: You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read. You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.
Walter Dean Myers quotes: 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. 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.

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