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This research paper attempts to delineate the perseverance of black woman/mother. The black women having the opportunity to dispose of their prejudiced image could express themselves by the help of autobiography. This study depicts how Angelou ask her readers to “gather” around her as bears witness to painful truths about her past, describes herself as a young mother, bent upon on survival for herself and her child. African American mother can be seen from numerous aspects, often contradictory points of view. Every black mother has a lot of faces and layers; and she has to play each and every legitimate role. To draw an explicit picture of an African American mother, one has to take into account all the hardships and sufferings she, her mothers and grandmothers were forced to face. Angelou mirrors the lives of black women taking into consideration of her own life. Black mother plays an integrating role in her serious of autobiography.