Walter Dean Myers

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

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.

Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don__Want to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.

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