Walter Dean
Walter Dean
Walter Kevin Dean is an American former football running back. He played college football for the Grambling State Tigers at Grambling State University. In his senior year, he led the nation in rushing and won the 1990 Walter Payton Award as the most outstanding player in Division I-AA football. He played professional football for one season in the National Football Leagueafter he was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1991 NFL Draft...
this-life ability
You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.
dream giving-up people
People told me to give up trying to be special and settle down to a regular life. There ain't nothing wrong with a regular life, and that's the Lord's truth...but it wasn't for me, because I wanted to be something special. I knew how easy it was for a dream to die. I seen that all around me. You could let it die by just looking the other way.
mean gay life-is
If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
war sacrifice people
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
thinking tomorrow
Think about all the tomorrows of your life.
temptation hard-life sometimes
It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken
thinking mess
Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.
reading kids needs
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
dinner poet enjoy
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
basketball heart important
No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.
brain unhappy looks
If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.
punishment matter belts
They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.
sight upset sometimes
Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.
writing stories
I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.