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- James Robert Payne, Alice Walker
- 1983
- “Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.” ― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose.
- “(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. ― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose.
- “I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.” ― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose.
- “no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.”
Mar 10, 2020 · In this, her first collection of nonfiction, the author speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political.
Published in 1983, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose is a collection composed of 36 separate pieces written by Alice Walker. The essays, articles, reviews, statements, and speeches were written between 1966 and 1982. [1] Many are based on her understanding of "womanist" theory.
- James Robert Payne, Alice Walker
- 1983
Oct 14, 2010 · Alice Walker traces the umbilical thread linking women writers through history – from her discovery of Zora Neale Hurston and her collections of black folklore, to the work of Jean Toomer, Buchi Emecheta and Flannery O’Connor.
Feb 20, 2021 · In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose. by. Walker, Alice, 1944-. Publication date. 2004. Topics. Walker, Alice, 1944-, Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography, African American women authors -- Biography, Feminism -- United States, African American women. Publisher. Orlando : Harcourt.
Nov 28, 2023 · View Kindle Edition. In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.
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Nov 28, 2023 · In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.