Margaret Walker: "For my people everywhere singing…"

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Para mi gente en todas partes cantando sus canciones de esclavos repetidamente sus cantos fúnebres y sus canciones y sus blues y jubileos

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“The poet is an artist for whom singing is not simply enough only accompanied by tears is h...”

Margaret Walker

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