Margaret Walker quotes
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“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.74, University of Georgia Press
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“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
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“Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Margaret Walker (2014). “Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker”, p.207, University of Georgia Press
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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.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.462, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“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 WalkerSource : Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.21, University of Georgia Press
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“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 WalkerSource : Margaret Walker (2014). “Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker”, p.170, University of Georgia Press
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“I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (2002). “Conversations with Margaret Walker”, p.3, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.”
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“Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.”
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“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.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Walker (1974). “A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker”, Howard Univ Pr
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“You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Margaret Walker (1980). “Jubilee”
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“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.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (1990). “How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature”, p.23, Feminist Press at CUNY
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“... 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.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (2002). “Conversations with Margaret Walker”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“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 WalkerSource : Margaret Walker (2014). “Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker”, p.23, University of Georgia Press
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“The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.”
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“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.”
-- Margaret WalkerSource : Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.485, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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