Walter Dean Myers Quotes
My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
Myers, Walter Dean. Street Love. Amistad, 2006.
Hitler’s concept of a “New World Order” was the Conquest of Europe by Germany and thereafter the control be Nazi Germany. Germany’s ally, Japan, also used the idea of a New Asian Order where peace would be brought to Asia controlled and enforced by Japan.
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.
