Walker's writing reminds me a little of Toni Morrison. They both often describe the sacrificing, almost heroic, beautiful black female in their pieces.
pretty wording on 678 '...when she cried out in her soul to paint watercolors of sunsets, or the rain falling on the green and peaceful pasturelands.'
on this same page, Walker asks rhetorically how the black woman's creativity survived all the hardships. the fact that we do have creative black women is proof of the strong human nature to survive and to create.
i have never heard of Sapphire's Mama so i googled it and found the following on www.sitcomsonline.com:
Now, about Ramona Smith, aka Sapphire's Mama (as played on both the radio and televison versions by Amanda Randolph (she also played "Birdie", the maid on "The Great Gildersleeve", as well as the housekeeper {whose name escapes me at the moment} on "Make Room For Daddy/The Danny Thomas Show)...she was the typical "battle-axe" type mother-in-law character popular in sitcoms of the era. Her main goal was to annoy and aggrivate the Kingfish (played on tv by the incomparable Tim Moore), and, when Kingfish did something to make Sapphire (Ernesetine Wade) mad, Mama would come and rescue her daughter, or worse, double-team the poor Kingfish, to get their point across!so as well as being seen as 'Castraters' they were seen as 'battle-axe' bitches?
my mom was always hard working a busy like Walker's mom. I don't see any creative streak in her, i don't think. it makes me wonder if everyone has creativity or enjoys being creative.
i'm going to see that quilt at the smithsonian someday.
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