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)
“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)
“Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch;
Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.”
—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)
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)