"We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens."

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Source : "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Joshua Loper". Interview with Linda M. Pavonetti and Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

Walter Dean Myers

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“One of the things I always underscore when I teach criticism is that young critics, or would be critics, frequently have this illusion that if they write about music they're somehow part of music, or if they write about movies they're part of movies, or of they write about theater they're part of theater, or write about literature. Writing is a part of literature, we belong the species of literature. If you add all the music reviews together that have ever been written, they don't create two notes of music.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.”
“For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.”
“And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4)”

Source : SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”
“I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.”

Source : Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 22, 2012.
“To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.”

Source : "The Face Of The Third Reich". Book by Joachim C. Fest, Chapter 13, Part 3, 1970.
“You can't live and write at the same time.”
“Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.”

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