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Margaret Walker Quotes

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.

Margaret Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: July 7, 1915 - November 30, 1998

Topics

Heart Time Doctor Sick You Mad

I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.

Jim Harrison

Good Thought I Can Out Up Pretty

What the world does not need is another script or television writer.

John Gregory Dunne

World Television Need Writer Script

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

Merle Haggard

Car Song True I Was Raised Something

It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.

John Podhoretz

Food Job People World Unique Find

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

Roger Moore

Reading Christian Year Will Birth

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Roberto Cavalli

Music Famous Special Reason Because

For years, I have been writing that ultimately, if nothing else stops the Iranian nuclear project, such as the sanctions or a change in the regime in Tehran, then Israel itself will take action to destroy it from the air.

Ronen Bergman

Change Writing Action Nothing Will

When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.

Mary Pope Osborne

Life Community Time School Me World

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

Joseph Butler

Nature Imperfection Stand Need Show

When you are alone, you need to take many decisions, and you can make mistakes.

Christian Cota

Alone Mistakes Decisions You Need

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

Anna Wintour

Power Woman America Look Seriously

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

Arthur Rock

Business Possibilities Appreciated