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Margaret Walker: The Word of...

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

Source: In Words to Make My Dream Children Live, by Deirdre Mullane, 1995.
-- Margaret Walker, (Jul 7 1915-1998), US writer, educator; She was one of the most important poets, 1930s; For My People captured the struggles of Southern blacks and won the Yale Younger Poets Award, 1942.


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