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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

Walter Dean Myers

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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
People
Keeping
Friendship
Cutting
Easy
Hard
Life

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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.
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What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.
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Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you. —Mr. Hooft
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
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the beast is the monster that destroys your dream
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The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
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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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When I began to read, I began to exist
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Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.
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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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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.
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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 write in a small office at home.
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No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.
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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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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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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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It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken
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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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