"Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?"

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Source : "Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?" by Walter Dean Myers, www.nytimes.com. March 15, 2014.

Walter Dean Myers

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“And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.”
“The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people”
“Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.”
“Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied in itself with its own quantity of water. Similarly, when our heart is cleansed with spirituality, we find pleasure and ecstasy with our own selves that is so sweet, so wonderful and so satisfying, that the so-called pleasures of this world no longer have any values, no appeal at all.”
“Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.”

Source : "The Mind Reader". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 1, 2007.
“Who learns most from a good book is the author.”
“Everything we feel deeply must be expressed.”

Source : Hans Hartung, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1975). “Hans Hartung: Paintings, 1971-1975 : [exhibition], October 16, 1975-January 4, 1976 : [catalogue].”, p.25, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“[President-elect George W] Bush has reached out to these other groups like Blacks and Hispanics.... He ought to do his reaching out to the people who elected him.”

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