Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved... →
Liz Murray
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter... →
Brendan Myers
I like people who take responsibility for their lives.
Walter Dean Myers
I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if... →
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people... →
Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.
Lauren Myracle
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours.... →
Alva Myrdal