Margaret Walker
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"Margaret Walker" was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago. Her notable works include the award-winning poem For My People (1942) and the novel Jubilee (novel)/Jubilee (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War.

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Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

After all they had been through to ... finally get clean and eating regularly, they didn't want to be uprooted.

Right now, the focus is on saving people's lives.

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

We normally don't reimburse them, ... On occasion, for things or an event above and beyond their capabilities, we step in from time to time.

I'm hearing that a lot of them just don't want to be relocated again, ... They got to a place where they felt warm and safe and welcomed and didn't want to go someplace else.

Our concern was to get them out of unsafe conditions.

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.

My grandmothers are full of memories/ Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay/ With veins rolling roughly over quick hands/ They have many clean words to say,/ My grandmothers were strong.