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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

Alice Walker

A collection of womanist prose essays by Alice Walker exploring Black women's artistic traditions, models, and cultural contributions. Walker examines the lives and works of Black female artists and writers while reflecting on the importance of models for creative and spiritual growth.

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God & Work

What this book knows

Black women's thwarted creativity survived as anonymous art, quilting, and gardens—seeds of a matrilineal aesthetic tradition demanding recovery.

Sex: Absent
Work: Primary
Learning: Present
Religion: Present

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our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see
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What is amazing is that Zora… managed to become Zora Neale Hurston, author and anthropologist, at all
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They forced their minds to desert their bodies… moving to music not yet written. And they waited for a day when the unknown thing that was in them would be made known
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I was eager to bring an end to the South that permitted my humiliation… everyone was conquering fear by holding the hands of the persons next to them
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self-and-identity

students and dropouts who articulate… that they believe themselves to be without a valuable history, without a recognizable tradition
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it is my spirit, bordering on sassiness (womanishness), they secretly applaud
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