“It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved — such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.”

Barack Obama

“Finally, there are the dangers inherent in any autobiographical work: the temptation to color events in ways favorable to the writer, the tendency to overestimate the interest one’s experiences hold for others,”

Barack Obama

“You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.”

Barack Obama

“church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I’d get some version of the same two questions. “Where’d you get that funny name?” And then: “You seem”

Barack Obama

“So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.”

Barack Obama

“By dint of vision, and determination, and most of all faith in the redeeming power of love, he endured the humiliation of arrest, the loneliness of a prison cell, the constant threats to his life, until he finally inspired a nation to transform itself, and begin to live up to the meaning of its creed.”

Barack Obama

“It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.”

Barack Obama

“The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.”

Barack Obama

“Cynicism is a choice, and hope is a better choice.”

Barack Obama

“They spend half they lives worrying about what white folks think.”

Barack Obama

“What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one.”

Barack Obama

“doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.”

Barack Obama

“Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.”

Barack Obama

“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”

Barack Obama

“Our values call upon us to care about people we'll never meet.”

Barack Obama


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