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Margaret Walker quotes: Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch;Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.

Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch;
Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.

Margaret Walker quotes: When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

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

Margaret Walker quotes: 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.

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.

Margaret Walker quotes: Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!

Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!
Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!

Margaret Walker quotes: Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Margaret Walker quotes: 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.

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

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 quotes: I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.

I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.

Margaret Walker quotes: When and where will another come to take your holy place?Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?

When and where will another come to take your holy place?
Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?

Margaret Walker quotes: All you violated ones with gentle hearts;You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak

All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak

Margaret Walker quotes: Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.

Margaret Walker quotes: The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

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

Margaret Walker quotes: 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 quotes: Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.

Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.