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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. They’re embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Smart, People, Think

Walter Dean Myers

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 book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Day, Best, Library

Walter Dean Myers

There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male… The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

Life, Friends, Myself

Walter Dean Myers

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

Conflict, Negative, Military

Walter Dean Myers

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Birthday, Romantic, Poetry

Walter Dean Myers

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude – I dare you to entertain me.

Children, Me, You

Walter Dean Myers

Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise

Walter Dean Myers

Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don’tWant to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.

poetry, thinking

Walter Dean Myers

You are not in Disneyland,” he said. “The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here.

chance, desire, disneyland, friendly, kill, little-people, mouseketeers, service, strong

Walter Dean Myers

Fools commit suicide and think they’re doing themselves a favor.

favor, fools, suicide

Walter Dean Myers

Yeah, it’s hard, babyIt’s hard right down to the boneI said Oh, it’s hard babyIt’s hard right down to the very boneIt’s hard when you’re a womanAnd you find yourself all aloneI’ve been flapping and scrappingAnd running from door to doorYou know I’ve been flapping and scrapping, honeyRunning from door to door

loneliness, women

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.