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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
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Martinsburg
West Virginia
Walter Milton Myers
Wells
Well
Desperate
City
Streets
Cities
Taken

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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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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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Wherever your heart rests There I will live and be blessed I've tried to line up the things I Needed to say but now my feelings just Tumble from me. I am half foolish, Half drunk with wanting you With wanting to take your hand And leap into the darkness of whatever Life will bring. Love makes me Brave and without love I'm made Nothing.
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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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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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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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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 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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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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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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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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But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
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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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I like people who take responsibility for their lives.
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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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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 of us is born with a history already in place
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When I began to read, I began to exist
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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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