Famous quotes containing the words margaret abigail walker, abigail walker, margaret abigail, abigail and/or walker:
“croppers rotting shacks
with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
where sentiment and hatred still held sway
and only bitter land was washed away.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
“Imp at three and wench at ‘leben
She counted her husbands to the number seben.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
“When and where will another come to take your holy place?
Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
“With veins rolling roughly over quick hands
They have many clean words to say.
My grandmothers were strong.
Why am I not as they?”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
“All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak;”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)