Walter Dean Myers Quotes
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.
Myers, Walter Dean. "Values and the Young Adult Reader." The Horn Book Magazine, vol. 62, no. 4, 1986.
In his view, the ethical ideal could, but need not be a religion, but could include idealistic aspects of secular humanism or political ideal.
Soros, a billionaire, has given most of his money to charities in different countries and advocates his own foreign policy.
Rules are inflexible, but principles can be balanced and guide people more judiciously.
Walter Dean Myers was a writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem, New York City. A tough childhood led him to writing and his school teachers would encourage him in this habit as a way to express himself. He wrote more than one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. His 1988 novel Fallen Angels is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. because of its adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War.
