What Keeps Me Standing: Letters from Black Grandmothers on Peace, Hope and Inspiration - Hardcover

Kimbro, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038550635X ISBN 13: 9780385506359

Verlag: Bantam Dell, 2003

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Book by Kimbro Dennis

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Drawing on letters from hundreds of African-American grandmothers representing a wide array of backgrounds and locations, this collection of words of wisdom shares messages of hope, inspiration, family love, the power of each individual to take charge of his or her own destiny, compassion, and other essential advice.

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ous bestsellers, Think and Grow Rich and What Makes the Great Great, Dennis Kimbro revealed the success secrets of highly touted entrepreneurs, corporate climbers, and Olympic athletes, as well as famous black Americans from George Washington Carver to Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey, and Jesse Jackson. In What Keeps Me Standing, he turns to another group of sages and mentors: the grandmothers who have long been the backbone of the African American family and community.

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. The lives they describe and the advice they proffer capture both a richness in spirit and a stron

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 038550635X
• ISBN 13: 9780385506359
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288