Margaret Walker

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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.

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.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.