What Keeps Me Standing (Hardcover)

• Category:  Books  »  Parenting & Family  »  Parenting - Grandparenting
• Format: Hardcover   Learn more about the Hardcover format using Tower WIKI.
• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• ISBN: 038550635X
• WAPI (Tower ID): 100116799
• Release Date: April 1, 2003
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #518473 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
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• #55 in Parenting - Grandparenting (See Top 100 Parenting - Grandparenting Bestsellers)

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In his previous 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 to 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 a richness of spirit and a strong belief in the power of every individual to take charge of his or her own destiny. In the face of racism, both blatant and subtle, financial struggles, and personal setbacks, black grandmothers have helped their communities in thousands of tangible and intangible ways, providing support, inspiration, and love not only for their own children and grandchildren, but also for neighbors, friends, and extended families.

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