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What keeps me standing : a Black grandmother's guide to peace, hope & inspiration / [compiled by] Dennis Kimbro.
LIBRA Rare E185.86 .W43868 2003 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Life skills guides.
- African Americans.
- Grandmothers.
- African American women.
- United States.
- Conduct of life.
- Inspiration.
- Peace of mind.
- Hope.
- African American women--Quotations.
- African American women--Biography.
- Grandmothers--United States--Quotations.
- Grandmothers--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Life skills guides.
- Biographies.
- Quotations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 20 unnumbered pages, 268 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, 2003.
- Summary:
- In his previous bestsellers, "Think and Grow Rich" and "What Makes the Great Great, " Kimbro revealed the success secrets of highly touted black people. Now he turns to another group of sages and mentors: the grandmothers who have long been the backbone of the African American family and community.
- Contents:
- Chapter One: Life is the Greatest of All Statements
- Chapter Two: Live This Day
- Chapter Three: Hope
- Chapter Four: Count It All Joy!
- Chapter Five: Love Letters
- Chapter Six: Wanted a Man
- Chapter Seven: Go and Do Likewise
- Chapter Eight: What Keeps Me Standing.
- Notes:
- "Book design by Jennifer Ann Daddio."
- "Over a period of five years Kimbro contacted one thousand grandmothers - women from a wide range of backgrounds and locations - asking, "If you had to write a one-page letter to your children or the next generation, what would you tell them about life?" Their answers, collected here, show that success in life cannot be measured in terms of wealth and material goods alone."--Dust jacket.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy signed "From: Kenneth Bowman, March 23, 2009".
- Other Format:
- Online version: What keeps me standing.
- ISBN:
- 038550635X
- 9780385506359
- OCLC:
- 51983274
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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