Margaret Walker: "For my people everywhere singing…"

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私の民が至る所で彼らの奴隷の歌を繰り返し歌っている、彼らの挽歌と小唄とブルースと祝祭の歌を

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“How can our profession hope to survive if we do not set higher literary and artistic standards?”

Margaret Walker

“Poetry is for me Eucharistic worthiness”

“I want my careless song to strike no minor key no fiend to stand between my body's Souther...”

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