My grandmother had a fantastic influence in my life. She would always check homework, and she would, each night she would Repeat it to me. And if I didn't stand up straight, she said, Child-this is the way she'd talk-Child, you got to stand up straight, let the world see you coming. And I would have to stand up straight...And she would say, And don't slur your words. She, oh, she was pushy. My grandmother-I would say that my granny had the greatest influence in my life.
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Shirley Chisholm was a 20th-century American politician. Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. Read more on Wikipedia →