The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
Source: In Black World, Dec 19??.
-- Margaret Walker, (Jul 7 1915-1998), US writer, educator; She was one of the most important poets, 1930s; For My People captured the struggles of Southern blacks and won the Yale Younger Poets Award, 1942.