As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing … - Walter Dean Myers

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How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan

Walter Dean Myers

As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

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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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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

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When I began to read, I began to exist

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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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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

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