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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.

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
Different
Things
Love
Needing
Think
Respect
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Somebody
Comes
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Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.
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But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.
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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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My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
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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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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.
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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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Each of us is born with a history already in place
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Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch
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I like people who take responsibility for their lives.
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Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.
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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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Reading is not optional.
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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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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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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
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New York is my favorite city.
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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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The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.
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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
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