Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel Jubilee (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War.

Quotes

• I have learned from the difficult exigencies of life that freedom is a philosophical state of mind and existence. The mind is the only place where I can exist and feel free. In my mind, I am absolutely free.
  • On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992. University of Tennessee Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-87049-981-4.  Quoted in Boyd, Herb (30 June 2010). Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 419. ISBN 978-0-307-75493-6. 

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