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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

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Walter Dean Myers
Age: 76 †
Born: 1937
Born: August 12
Died: 2014
Died: July 1
Novelist
Writer
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Walter Milton Myers
Lawyer
Athlete
Child
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Children
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Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me... Forever in your warmth The place for me and you I feel the sun Our life's just begun I know you feel it too
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
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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.
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I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
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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.
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Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
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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?
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Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin
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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?
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch
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We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
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Reading is not optional.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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