"I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain."" .
Like Baldwin's evidence, parts of Walker's evidence are also very personal. She uses evidence that relates directly back to her personal life. Mainly that of when she was a child. Because of Walker's argument, her personal evidence relates back to her experiences with her mother, as a child:.
During the working day', she labored beside "not behind "my father in the fields. Her day began before sun up, and did not end until late at night. There was never a moment for her to sit down, undisturbed, to unravel her own private thoughts; never a time free from interruption "by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children. And yet, it is to my mother "and all our mothers who were not famous "that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated, but vibrant, creative spirit that the black woman has inherited, and that pops out in wild and unlikely places to this day.
This passage is a good passage to use in understanding Walker. It is good for a few reasons. First of all, it shows evidence in which she talks about her mother. Secondly, lots of her personal feelings come out. It's not "women- she is talking about that have a muzzled spirit here but "black women-. She stresses how hard worked these women were "there was never a moment for her to sit down, undisturbed, to unravel her own private thoughts."".
Coincidentally and now similarly Baldwin and Walker both base their writing around the same sex parent. However, their other parents are both seldom mentioned. The main emphasis is Walker's mother, her father is only mentioned when it is used to make a reference to her mother. Baldwin's mother is mentioned in little doses here and there to help keep up with the events of the story.
