Walter Dean Myers Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Walter Dean Myers quotes and sayings page 4 (writer). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 63 we have.
“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.”
“I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.”
“I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.”
“There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.”
“We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.”
“With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.”
“As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.”
“I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?”
“I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.”
“People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.”
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