Margaret Walker quotes

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth. (Margaret Walker)
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. View quote
Margaret Walker
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong. View quote
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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. View quote
Margaret Walker
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me. View quote
Margaret Walker
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book. View quote
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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. View quote
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Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor. View quote
Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: July 7, 1915
Died: November 30, 1998
Quotes count: 8