Aaron Middlebrooks

“That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel. ”
― Walter Dean Myers, Slam!

“On the streets of the city
They have taken my Who-I-Am
As well as my What-I-Was
And now I am desperate for them both
Again”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Slam!

“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—you know, some of those Asian people say they don't kill nothing, but they'll take a fish out of water and lay it on the ground and then say it just died on its own—you can do that with a dream, too. And sometimes you can get so frustrated, you feel so bad about your dream, that you go on and kill it yourself. When you do that, you're killing a piece of yourself, too."

—Mr. Cephus”
― Walter Dean Myers, Game