"What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight."

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Walter Dean Myers

#Book Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Delight Quotes

“Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature.”
“Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.”
“Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right.”
“In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.”
“Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.”
“I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.”
“She tasted of fairytales”
“Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.”

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