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'''For Malcolm X'''
  
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''Margaret Walker''
  
Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander known as Margaret Walker, was an American poet and writer who was born July 7, 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. She was one of the leading black women writers in the mid 20th century. Her best known work was the nove ''Jubilee'' (1966). As a part of African-American literary movement in Chicago, as well as known as the Chicago Black Renaissance, Walker’s works mostly speak powerfully about African-American experiences. In 1942, she received the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and was the first African-American who was awarded with the prize for her debut collection of poetry, ''For My People.'' <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Walker</ref><ref>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Walker</ref><ref>https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/classic-women-authors-poetry/11-poems-by-margaret-walker/</ref>
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All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
  
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You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak;
  
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Whose voices echo clamors of our cool capers,
  
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And whose black faces have hollowed pits for eyes.
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All you gambling sons and hooked children and bowery bums
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Hating white devils and black bourgeoisie,
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Thumbing your noses at your burning red suns,
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Gather round this coffin and mourn your dying swan.
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Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!
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Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!
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Our blood and water pour from your flowing wounds.
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You have cut open our breasts and dug scalpels in our brains.
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When and Where will another come to take your holy place?
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Old man mumbling in his dotage, crying child, unborn? <ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52730/for-malcolm-x</ref>
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[[Category: Anti-Black Racism in Poetry]]

Revision as of 13:06, 16 January 2021

Poetry

For Malcolm X

Margaret Walker

All you violated ones with gentle hearts;

You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak;

Whose voices echo clamors of our cool capers,

And whose black faces have hollowed pits for eyes.

All you gambling sons and hooked children and bowery bums

Hating white devils and black bourgeoisie,

Thumbing your noses at your burning red suns,

Gather round this coffin and mourn your dying swan.

Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!

Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!

Our blood and water pour from your flowing wounds.

You have cut open our breasts and dug scalpels in our brains.

When and Where will another come to take your holy place?

Old man mumbling in his dotage, crying child, unborn? [1]

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