June 24, 2008

• Barack

  Below are a few lines from Obama’s books; In his words!

  From Dreams of 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 of My Father : ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’

   From Dreams of My Father: ‘There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’

   From Dreams of 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 of 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 attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’

    From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’

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