Margaret Walker

thumb|Margaret Walker Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel Jubilee (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War. Quotes I have learned from the difficult exigencies of life that freedom is a philosophical state of mind and existence. The mind is the only place where I can exist and feel free. In my mind, I am absolutely free. On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992 1997 University of Tennessee Press 978-0-87049-981-4 Quoted in Boyd Herb Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It 30 June 2010 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 978-0-307-75493-6 419 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Autobiography_of_a_People/y3fnQN5jK5YC?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&dq=%22I+have+learned+from+the+difficult+exigencies+of+life+that+freedom+is+a+philosophical+state+of+mind+and+existence.+The+mind+is+the+only+place+where+I+can+exist+and+feel+free.%22&pg=PA462&printsec=frontcover External links Category:1915 births Category:1998 deaths Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Poets from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Methodists from the United States Category:People from Alabama Category:People from Chicago Category:20th-century poets from the United States Category:People from Illinois Category:People from Mississippi Category:20th-century African-American women