I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
When I began to read, I began to exist - Walter Dean Myers
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
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.
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? - Walter Dean Myers
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. - Walter Dean Myers
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
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
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…
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional. - Walter Dean Myers
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
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
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…
Think about all the tomorrows of your life. - Walter Dean Myers
Think about all the tomorrows of your life.
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
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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