Margaret Walker Quotes
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When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
— Margaret Walker
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
Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins! — Margaret Walker
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
— 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
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
I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.
— Margaret Walker
When and where will another come to take your holy place?Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn? — Margaret Walker
All you violated ones with gentle hearts;You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak — Margaret Walker
Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.
— Margaret Walker
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
— Margaret Walker
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
— Margaret Walker
Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.
— Margaret Walker