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Margaret Walker quotes

American Poet July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998

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Keeping hatred inside makes you git mean and evil inside. We supposen to love everybody like God loves us. And when you forgives you feels sorry for the one what hurt you, you returns love for hate, and good for evil. And that stretches your heart and makes you bigger inside with a bigger heart so's you can love everybody when your heart is big enough. Your chest gets broad like this, and you can lick the world with a loving heart! Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and... 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
Margaret Walker quote: "Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. 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
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
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
Margaret Walker quote: "When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful..."
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book. Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker quote: "The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an..."
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. Margaret Walker
it's what makes you grow up to have younguns and be a sho-nuff mammy all your own ... . A man ain't but trouble, just breath and britches and trouble 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

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