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Margaret Walker
When I was...
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a...
The poetry of...
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our...
The Word of...
The Word of fire burns today
On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
Source:...
I want my...
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song -- the fusion of the...
White folks needs...
White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to...
You is born...
You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if...
My grandmothers are...
My grandmothers are full of memories
Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay
With veins rolling roughly over...
Let a new...
Let a new earth rise. Let another
world be born. Let a bloody
peace be written in the sky.
Let a second...
Now when you...
Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad...
Friends and good...
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Source: Ji`bilee,...