Walter Dean Myers Quotes

Give education and knowledge to the common people.

Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

You can't just shuffle people around like they're deck chairs on a ship. You have to help them change their lives, and you have to give them the requisite resources to do so.

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Growing up in the inner city, a lot of kids didn't think reading was cool. I'm trying to show them that it is cool and the importance of growing and learning outside of their everyday lives, which is a lot of times sports.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

Education is freedom.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.