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.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- 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.