Margaret Walker Quotes

Margaret Walker — American Poet born on July 07, 1915, died on November 30, 1998

Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago. Her notable works include the award-winning poem For My People and the novel Jubilee, set in the South during the American Civil War... (wikipedia)

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

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

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.

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.

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 Quotes

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