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

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
Dark
Evil
Means
Mean
Molly
Chile
Witch
Devil

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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.
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White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what.
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Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face! Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!
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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.
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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.
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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
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Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.
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When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
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A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time a peace of mind a quiet place and a private life.
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All you violated ones with gentle hearts You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak
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... 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.
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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.
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Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.
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