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.
Walter Dean MyersWe all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
Walter Dean MyersI couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
Walter Dean MyersI 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