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Margaret Walker

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born

July 07, 1915 in The United States

died

November 30, 1998

gender

female

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Literature & Fiction

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Dr. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an African-American poet and author born in Birmingham, Alabama. She wrote as Margaret Walker. One of her most known poems is "For My People".

Her father Sigismund C. Walker was a Methodist minister and her mother was Marion Dozier Walker. They helped get her started in literature by teaching a lot of philosophy and poetry to her as a child.

In 1935, Walker received her Bachelors of Arts Degree from Northwestern University and in 1936 she began work with the Federal Writers' Project under the Works Progress Administration. In 1942 she received her master's degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa. In 1965 she returned to that school to earn her Ph.D. Sh...more

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Books by Margaret Walker

Average rating: 4.09 · 929 ratings · 121 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Jubilee by Margaret Walker, Margaret Walker Alexander 4.10 avg rating — 874 ratings — 13 editions	My rating:
	This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	For My People 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	How I Wrote Jubilee: And Other Essays on Life and Literature 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	My rating:
	On Being Female Black Free: Margaret Walker 1932-1992 by Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Come Down From Yonder Mountain 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1962	My rating:
	Richard Wright: Demonic Genius 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	As English Literature 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating:

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Quotes by Margaret Walker

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book. ”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books , inspirational

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“Keeping hatred inside makes you git mean and evil inside. We supposen to love everybody like God loves us. And when you forgives you feels sorry for the one what hurt you, you returns love for hate, and good for evil. And that stretches your heart and makes you bigger inside with a bigger heart so's you can love everybody when your heart is big enough. Your chest gets broad like this, and you can lick the world with a loving heart! 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. Folks with a loving heart don't never need no doctor.”
― Margaret Walker, Jubilee

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“it's what makes you grow up to have younguns and be a sho-nuff mammy all your own ... . A man ain't but trouble, just breath and britches and trouble”
― Margaret Walker, Jubilee

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