Black Women of Our Past

Black Women of Our Past Since the beginning of time, men were considered superior over women. Women were not educated. Many of them did not even have chances to express their creativity. Alice Walker addresses that issue in her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens." In the essay, Walker created images of the stifled women with stories from other writers and her mothers'. One of the reasons women did not have chances to express …

…s. Walker wanted everyone to find a way to express his or her creativity. Walker found her way as she wrote, "In search of my mother's garden, I found my own." (Walker 746) Walker's essay is just like the words of Jean Toomer and Virginia Wolf’s, the poetries of Phyllis Wheatley, and her mother's hymns, it paved a road for people to express their talent. Hopefully people will find outlets to truly release their creativity.