Quotes by Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.'Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. S — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid. — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could b — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past. — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell i — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating in its implications. — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs. — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperati — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
And then, on September 11, the world fractured.It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that wo — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some elem — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
He's basically a good man. But he doesn't know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after your mother. He can — Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance