My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
Walter Dean MyersWhat some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.
Walter Dean MyersEach 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.
Walter Dean MyersBooks transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
Walter Dean MyersIt 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 those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.
Walter Dean Myers