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Margaret Walker

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

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

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

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"Not even old age knows how to love death."

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"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book."
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"The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories."
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"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."
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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."
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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."
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"I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me."
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"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."
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Margaret Walker
"The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age."
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