Margaret Walker Quotes

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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
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.

Margaret Walker
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.

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
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.

Margaret Walker
What I have here is a complete indictment of our present-day society, our whole world. What's wrong it is money, honey, money.

Margaret Walker
Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.

Margaret Walker
I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem.... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.

Margaret Walker
I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.

Margaret Walker
I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don't think there is anything sacred in the integrity of race, white or black.

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White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks is got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what.

Margaret Walker
Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch;
Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.

Margaret Walker
The black woman has deep wells of spiritual strength. She doesn't know how she's going to feed her family in the morning, but she prays and in the morning, out of thin air, she makes breakfast.

Margaret Walker
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 you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.

Margaret Walker
For my People everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees humbly to an unseen power.

Margaret Walker
All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak

Margaret Walker
Her voice is thin and her moan is high,
And her cackling laugh or her barking cold
Bring terror to the young and old.
O Molly, Molly, Molly Means
Lean is the ghost of Molly Means.

Margaret Walker
Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!
Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!

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