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...
dealing distinct easily head life moved sports street vocabulary voices
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
dinner enjoy
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
dad
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
absorb allow both fits head telling time until
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
both cause death dispel either notion romantic vietnam war younger
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
waiting want feels
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.
dream monsters beast
the beast is the monster that destroys your dream
games
How deep is your game?
night light helping
The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.
trying guilty convince
he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.
real wish way
The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.
smart book kids
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
mother song sweet
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
enemy easy said
Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch