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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.

Source: From Lineage; quoted in The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
-- 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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