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Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.
Walter Dean Myers
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Walter Dean Myers
Age: 76 †
Born: 1937
Born: August 12
Died: 2014
Died: July 1
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Martinsburg
West Virginia
Walter Milton Myers
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My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
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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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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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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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