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 Muslim's should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
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Wow! Awesome post Trixie!
I wish people would get their heads out of _____. I hope
they come to their senses. I pray they come to their senses.
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1I would rather take care of myself than rely on the gov't to take care of me or my children. The government is the most inefficient at spending money.
It's ridiculous that he feels he needs to choose one race over the other.
From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslim's should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
That scares the crap out of me.
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That last quote makes me want to 
3I'd like to see someone in the media call him out on these quotes. (I know...Wishful thinking.) Let him try to explain these away.
4I'd like to know the context of this one:
From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslim's should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
5me too Tiff.
6His true colors will show. Hopefully everyone's rose colored glasses won't shield them. He really is a bigot and a racist.
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"Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely, and who rely on you in return. No misfortune, no injury, no humiliation can destroy it."
The Muslim quote doesn't really bother me. I think he is saying that, should it become politically savvy to criticize Muslims as a whole group (well, it kind of already is), he won't change his stance.
I'd like to know the context of the other quotes.
8Here's the complete quote, which can be found on p. 261 of "The Audacity of Hope":
Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
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