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Angelou, Maya—Family. 2. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Entertainers—United States—Biography. 4. African American authors—Biography. I. Title: Mom & Me & Mom. PS3551.N464Z46 2012 818′. 5409—dc23 2012022257  \n[B]  \nAll photographs courtesy of Maya Angelou, except those on this page, this page, this page, and this page, which are courtesy of Eugene  \nB. Redmond.  \n[www.atrandom.com](www.atrandom.com)  \nJacket design: Nancy Harris Rouemy / Go For It Design Ltd  \nv3. 1  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nPrologue Chapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nDedication  \nAcknowledgments  \nOther Books by This Author  \nAbout the Author  \nPROLOGUE  \nFrequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, poor in a society where wealth is adored and sought after at all costs, female in an environment where only large ships and some engines are described favorably by using the female pronoun—how did I get tobe Maya Angelou?  \nMany times I have wanted to quote Topsy, the young black girl in Uncle Tom s’ Cabin. I have been tempted to say,“I dunno. I just growed.” I never used that response, for a number of reasons. First, because I read the book in my early teens and the ignorant black girl embarrassed me. Second, I knew that I had become the woman I am because of the grandmother I loved and the mother I came to adore. Their love informed, educated, and liberated me. I lived with my paternal grandmother from the time I was three years old until I was thirteen. My grandmother never kissed me during those years.  \nHowever, when she had company, she would summon me to stand in front of her visitors. Then she would stroke my arms asking, “Have you ever seen arms more beautiful, straight as a plank and brown as peanut butter?” Or she would give me a tablet and a pencil. She would call out numbers tome in front of her company.  \n“All right sister, put 242, then 380, then 174, then 419; now add that.” She would speak to the visitors,“Now watch. Her uncle Willie has timed her. She can finish that in two minutes. Just wait.”  \nWhen I told the answer, she would beam with pride.“See? My little professor.”  \nLove heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.  \nThis book has been written to examine some of the ways love heals and helps a person to climb impossible heights and rise from immeasurable depths.  \n“My mother was to remain a startling beauty.”  \n(1976)  \n1  \nThe first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.  \nHer father, a Trinidadian with a heavy Caribbean accent,","cbCaibGzjQleeKLx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibGzjQleeKLx","pdf",1887745,99,"English","# Prologue\n## Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## Chapter 13\n## Chapter 14\n## Chapter 15\n## Chapter 16\n## Chapter 17\n## Chapter 18\n## Chapter 19\n## Chapter 20\n## Chapter 21\n## Chapter 22\n## Chapter 23\n## Chapter 24\n## Chapter 25\n## Chapter 26\n## Chapter 27\n## Chapter 28\n## Chapter 29\n## Chapter 30","[{\"question\":\"What core idea does the prologue emphasize about love?\",\"answer\":\"The prologue explains that love heals and liberates. 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