QUOTES by Walter Dean Myers
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Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in.
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In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.
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I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.
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Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.
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I am too real not to know that real will kill me I am too street not to know what the streets hold for me
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If I'm going to have a fight I got to see the win in it so I'll know what I'm fighting for.
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Sometimes, when things look terrible...you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great.
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Let me think Thinking is all I have If wisdom is a pretense Then let me pretend to be wise
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I wanted to love my father. I wanted to, but I didn't. Sometimes I didn't even like him. he hadn't been a guy you could really get next to, because in a way he was never where you thought he was.
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You're not getting in anything, so between us it's going to be outcest, and that's just another word for friendship. —Jocelyn Lawson
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We dreamed a lot of good stuff. Marriage and forever and ever and that kind of thing. It meant everything to me. Not just a lot. Everything.
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The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.
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She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight. --perhaps the best line from Shooter
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Go. Think. Turn black into white. Night into day. I am tired of thinking. I know where it will lead me and I don’t Want to be there. Go love. Do your thinking.
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Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.
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But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.
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What 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.
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People want to look at you and see your whole future laid out the way they know it, and I was saying that didn't happen. People aren't born with I'M GREAT! flashing on their foreheads.
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Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.
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Pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure
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Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers probing parts you never though you could probably probe" - Gray
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People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that.
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Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.
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My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury.
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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.
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That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.
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The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
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Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.
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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.
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Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch
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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?
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We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.
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I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that?
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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.
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Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.
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On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again
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