"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."
"My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong."
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Source: Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.21, University of Georgia Press
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