Obama on Race:
From Dreams from My Father: ‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams from My Father : ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams from My Father: ‘There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams from My Father: ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams from My Father: ‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attribute I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’
From “The Audacity of Hope”: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
Awesome post.
Wish we had the page numbers on each of those quotes.