When I began to read, I began to exist

- Walter Dean Myers

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

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

- Walter Dean Myers

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

- Walter Dean Myers

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch t…

- Walter Dean Myers

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

- Walter Dean Myers

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 participat…

- Walter Dean Myers

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

- Walter Dean Myers

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

- Walter Dean Myers