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Margaret Walker (9)

Birth:	7th July, 1915
Death:	30th November, 1998
Nationality:	African, American
Profession:	Poet, Writer

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• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.

  Margaret Walker

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• When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

  Margaret Walker

• The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

  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.

  Margaret Walker

• 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.

  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.

  Margaret Walker

• 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

• 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.

  Margaret Walker

• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t

  Margaret Walker