In Search of Our Mothers Garden by Alice Walker Freedom of expression
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"In Search of Our Mother's Garden" Alice Walker
Alice Walker expresses oppression and its relationship to artistic expression through gender and race. Many oppressed black women were extremely artistic and spiritual and yet had no idea how unique and special they truly were.They were so distracted, so unhopeful, and so overworked with their slave chores, they never took their artistic ability as an importance.
Black women in those days were never considered as human beings. They were "objects"- no one could care less about these women. I typically like this quote made by Walker which states, "To be an artist and a black woman, even today, lowers our status in many respects, rather than raises it: and yet, artists we will be." Yes, even being a black women today and spiritually artistic, most are still frowned upon and looked at negatively. Even now coming from a long road of oppression and discrimination, black women are still in some
ways not acknowledged or appreciated as much as we should. We are still considered "not good enough" in today's society. Black women still struggling to have a sense of equality amongst the high standards of white men and women and even black men today...