Walter Dean Myers Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Pain, Forever, Shadow

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• Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Needs, Looks, Garbage

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• My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Cutting, Life Is, Jagged Edge

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• If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Winning, Games, Use

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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.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Mom, Children, Emotional

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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.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Real, Wish, Way

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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.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Notebook, Exercise, Self

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• New York is my favorite city.

  Walter Dean Myers

  New York, Cities, My Favorite

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• My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Dad, Years, Corporations

  "To Do Well In Life, You Have To 'Read Well'". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 10, 2012.

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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.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Looks, Mint

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• I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Adventure, Magazines, Stuff

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• Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Past, Needs, Helping

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