Street Love QUOTES

1 " Yeah, it’s hard, baby
It’s hard right down to the bone
I said Oh, it’s hard baby
It’s hard right down to the very bone
It’s hard when you’re a woman
And you find yourself all alone
I’ve been flapping and scrapping
And running from door to door
You know I’ve been flapping and scrapping, honey
Running from door to door "

― Walter Dean Myers , Street Love

3 " Let me think
Thinking is all I have
If wisdom is a pretense
Then let me pretend to be wise "

― Walter Dean Myers , Street Love

5 " Wherever your heart rests
There I will live and be blessed
I've tried to line up the things I
Needed to say but now my feelings just
Tumble from me. I am half foolish,
Half drunk with wanting you
With wanting to take your hand
And leap into the darkness of whatever
Life will bring. Love makes me
Brave and without love I'm made
Nothing. "

― Walter Dean Myers , Street Love

7 " 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. "

― Walter Dean Myers , Street Love

9 " And what I was feeling was the wonder
Of being more than me, of being more
Than mere here and now allowed
I had become a shining star, a burning nova
Exploded with love
Flying through an endlessly
Expanding universe
Away from the me that was
Toward a me that is beyond
Understanding. "

― Walter Dean Myers , Street Love

11 " Yes, she is the fruit that will
Sustain me and yes, she brings
A rain that I know can chill
But it is a rain so sweet and sings
A song my soul insists
That I follow, if I would exist
As more than I have ever, ever been
If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin "

― Walter Dean Myers , Street Love

13 " I am too real not to know that real will kill me
I am too street not to know what the streets hold
for me "

― Walter Dean Myers , Street Love