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On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again

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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
Desperate
City
Streets
Cities
Taken
Wells
Well

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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become a shining star, a burning nova Exploded with love Flying through an endlessly Expanding universe Away from the me that was Toward a me that is beyond Understanding.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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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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