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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

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Margaret Walker
Age: 83 †
Born: 1915
Born: July 7
Died: 1998
Died: November 30
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander
Margaret Alexander
Margaret Walker Alexander
Margaret Abigail Walker
Body
Minors
Strike
Southern
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Keys
Fiend
South
Fusion
Stand
Careless
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