[12] She read to us every day and used homemade flash cards to teach us phonics. She bolstered our confidence, praising even our most ordinary accomplishments. When I was ten, I painted a stack of wooden crates white and nailed them together to make a wobbly bookcase. "It's wonderful!" Mama exclaimed. "Just what we need." She used it for many years.
[13] In the dining room are two paint-by-number pictures that my sister Gloria and brother Leo did as kids. Several years ago, Leo commented that the pictures weren't very good and offered to take them down. But Mama wouldn't hear of it. "They are there to remind you how much you could accomplish even as children," she said.
[14] From the very beginning, she urged us to think big. One day, after visiting our grandparents on the South Side, she made Dad detour past the Prudential Building construction site. Mama explained that when finished, the 41-story building would be Chicago's tallest. "Maybe someday one of you can design a building like this," she said.
[15] Her confidence in us was infectious. When my sister Carla was 12, she announced she was going to be a lawyer.
[11]母亲也希望我们每个人将来都有所作为。她总是说:“对你们的要求就是将来要大有作为。而我则是帮你们去实现。
[12]她每天给我们读书,还用自制的卡片教我们学语音。她激励我们,对我们做成的一般小事也要赞扬一番。在10岁那年,我把一些板条木箱漆成白色,然后把它们订成了一个摇摇晃晃的书柜。“棒极了!母亲赞叹道。“我们正好用得着。这书柜她一用就是好多年。
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