Beautiful Quote by 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…

— Margaret Walker

“it's what makes you grow up to have younguns and be a sho-nuff mammy all your own ... . A man ain't but trouble,…

— Margaret Walker

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

— Margaret Walker

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

— 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…

— Margaret Walker

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

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the…

— 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…

— Margaret Walker

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

— Margaret Walker