I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else’s web. Sometimes I think that’s why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There’s a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control….
Barack ObamaFive days a week, she came into my room at four in the morning, force-fed me breakfast, and proceeded to teach me my English lessons for three hours before I left for school and she went to work.
Barack ObamaWe’re never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so much because we’re bothered by the fact that such indignities are what less fortunate coloreds have to put up with every single day of their lives—although that’s what we tell ourselves—but because we’re wearing a Brooks Brothers suit and speak impeccable English and yet have somehow been mistaken for an ordinary nigger.
Barack ObamaSomeone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....
Barack ObamaStichwörter: legacy fathers manhood
So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his willingness to cut whites and Hispanics into the action, among activists disappointed with his failure to tackle poverty head-on, and among people who preferred the dream to the reality, impotence to compromise.
Barack ObamaThe title of Reverend Wright’s sermon that morning was “The Audacity of Hope.
Barack ObamaI think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
Barack ObamaWe must lift ourselves up, dust ourselfs off and begin the work of remaking America.
Barack Obamamake away out of no way
Barack ObamaI'm the President, but he's The Boss.
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