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Article: MOTHER MAPS.(fond memories of a mother, and her advice)(Brief Article)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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FOR the last three years, I have set myself a Mother's Day task--to write down all the advice my mother has given me over the course of the year. On the second Sunday in May, after our official Mother's Day celebration has ended, I turn off my phone, turn on my computer and list all the pearls of wisdom, the precious life lessons my mother, like generations of Black mothers, grandmothers and other mothers--the countless Sisters to whom Black daughters are related, not by blood or birth, but by unbreakable bonds--seems to know innately, intuitively, instinctively.
I started The List for two reasons. I thought that if I took the time to put my mother's advice on ...