Apr 20, 2011
"Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a / bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation / full of courage issue forth; let a people / loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of / healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing / in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs be / written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of [humans] now / rise and take control."
- Margaret Walker, from her poem "For My People"
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