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

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• Margaret Walker:

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

• Margaret Walker:

  The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the coll

• Margaret Walker:

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

• Margaret Walker:

  Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you

• Margaret Walker:

  Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a se

• Margaret Walker:

  My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling

• Pinetop Perkins:

  I play blues old-timey style.

• Pinetop Perkins:

  I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the gui

• Pinetop Perkins:

  What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

• Pinetop Perkins:

  I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and