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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

~Margaret Walker

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: July 7th, 1915

Died: November 30th, 1998

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