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IShall Not Be Moved On the Pulse of Morning Phenomenal Woman The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou A Brave and Startling Truth Amazing Peace  \nMother  \nCelebrations  \nCHILDREN'S BOOKS  \nMy Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me Kofi and His Magic  \nPICTURE BOOKS  \nNow Sheba Sings the Song Life Doesn't Frighten Me  \nCOOKBOOK  \nHallelujah! The Welcome Table  \nI dedicate this book to my grandson, Colin Ashanti Murphy-Johnson  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nSpecial thanks to a few of the many sister/friends whose love encourages me  \nto spell my name: WOMAN  \nDoris Bullard Rosa Guy  \nM. J. Hewitt Ruth Love Paule Marshall Louise Merriwether Dolly McPherson Emalyn Rogers Efuah Sutherland Decca Treuhaft Frances Williams  \nA. B. Williamson  \n“The ole ark's a-moverin', a-moverin', a-moverin', the ole ark's a-moverin' along”  \nThat ancient spiritual could have been the theme song of the United States in  \n1957. We were a-moverin' to, fro, up, down and often in concentric circles.  \nWe created a maze of contradictions. Black and white Americans danced a fancy and often dangerous do-si-do. In our steps forward, abrupt turns, sharp spins andreverses, we became our own befuddlement. The country hailed Althea Gibson, the rangy tennis player who was the first black female to win the U.S. Women's Singles. President Dwight Eisenhower sent U.S. paratroopers to protect black school children in Little Rock, Arkansas, and South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond harangued for 24 hours and 18 minutes to prevent the passage in Congress of the Civil Rights Commission's Voting Rights Bill.  \nSugar Ray Robinson, everybody's dandy, lost his middle weight title, won it back, then lost it again, all in a matter of months. The year's popular book was Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and its title was an apt description of our national psyche. We were indeed traveling, but no one knew our destination nor our arrival date.  \nI had returned to California from a year-long European tour as premier dancer with Porgy and Bess. I worked months singing in West Coast and Hawaiian night clubs and saved my money. I took my young son, Guy, and joined the beatnik brigade. To my mother's dismay, and Guy's great pleasure, we moved across the Golden Gate Bridge and into a houseboat commune in Sausalito where I went barefoot, wore jeans, and both of us wore rough-dried clothes. Although I took Guy to a San Francisco barber, I allowed my own hair to grow into a wide unstraightened hedge, which made me look, at a distance, like a tall brown tree whose branches had been clipped. My commune mates, anicthyologist, a musician, a wife, and an inventor, were white, and had they been political,(which they were not), would have occupied a place between the far left and revolution.  \nStrangely, the houseboat offered me respite from racial tensions, and gave my son an opportunity to be around whites who did not think of him as too exotic to need correction, nor so common as to be ignored.  \nDuring our stay in Sausalito, my mother struggled with her maternal instincts. On her monthly visits, dressed in stone marten furs, diamonds and spike heels, which constantly caught between loose floorboards, she forced smiles and held her tongue. Her eyes, however, were frightened for her baby, and her baby's baby. She left wads of money under my pillow or gave me checks as she kissed me goodbye. 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