Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker
Margaret Walkerwas 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 Peopleand the novel Jubilee, set in the South during the American Civil War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 July 1915
CountryUnited States of America
country thinking long
... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.
draw expertise gone guidance people
We wanted to draw from the guidance and expertise of the people that have already gone through this. For us, this has been very informative.
clean eating finally
After all they had been through to ... finally get clean and eating regularly, they didn't want to be uprooted,
hate believe men
I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem. ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.
integrity believe thinking
I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don't think there is anything sacred in the integrity of race, white or black.
children men holy-places
When and where will another come to take your holy place? Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?
beautiful white snow
Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face! Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!
halloween mean voice
Her voice is thin and her moan is high, And her cackling laugh or her barking cold Bring terror to the young and old. O Molly, Molly, Molly Means Lean is the ghost of Molly Means.
mean dark evil
Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch; Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.
hate heart doctors
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.
life heart bigs
Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.
peace sky issues
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.
heart dreamer violence
All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak
white justice black
White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what.