Walter Dean Myers Quotes

Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in.

...when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

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.

All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn't mind that they were men, or even white men. What I did mind was that being white seemed to play so important a part in the assigning of values.

Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise

You are not in Disneyland,” he said. “The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here.

Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.