Margaret Walker Quote

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.


For My People (1937)


For my People everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers...

For my People everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers...

For my People everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers...

For my People everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers...