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  1. 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.
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  2. 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?
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  3. Walter Dean Myers _ Bad Boy: A Memoir

    Each of us is born with a history already in place
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