Margaret Walker Quotes

Biography: Margaret Walker is known for her critically acclaimed novel "Jubilee" ... more Biography: Margaret Walker is known for her critically acclaimed novel "Jubilee" and her powerful poetry. Born on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama, Walker was a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. Her work often explored African-American heritage and identity, contributing richly to American literature. less

"The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.""How can our profession hope to survive if we do not set higher literary and artistic standards?""I see my crucifixion and my death in every great defensive war fought by my people""The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories""Poetry is the watchful eye of the human race""The poet is an artist for whom singing is not simply enough only accompanied by tears is his song complete""Poetry is for me Eucharistic worthiness""I want to write I want to write the songs of my people""Propaganda is lousy to live with and difficult to overcome""Now government is necessary for our mutual survival deception and lies our devastating hope""The Word must be heard one nation must go a new nation come luminous and firm""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 the blood of all the races""Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go""Let a new earth rise let another world be born let a bloody peace be written in the sky""For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees"

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