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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

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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
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Head
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Stories
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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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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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
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Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.
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Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.
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the beast is the monster that destroys your dream
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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.
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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 thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.
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If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
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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.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.
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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.
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Reading is not optional.
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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.
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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 book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
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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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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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