All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn't mind that they were men, or even white men. What I did mind was that being white seemed to play so important a part in the assigning of values. Walter Dean Myers
Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.
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Jennifer Crusie
Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.
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Bell Hooks
We hang on to our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in our own lives, we have betrayed them more often that we care to remember. What else is there to guide us? Those values...
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Barack Obama
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
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Max Barry
The more choices you have, the more your values matter.
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Michael Schrage
More Quotes By Walter Dean Myers
Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.
Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.
