Bad Boy Quotes

“Each of us is born with a history already in place”
― Walter Dean Myers, Bad Boy: A Memoir

“The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?”
― Walter Dean Myers, Bad Boy: A Memoir

“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, Bad Boy: A Memoir

“Actually, I liked the principal’s office. It was interesting to see the teachers come and go, talking about what they would have for lunch or what they had done the night before just as if they were normal people. I”
― Walter Dean Myers, Bad Boy