Hannah

“He was an erudite man and began our conversation with a history of slave religion, telling me about the Africans who, newly landed on hostile shoes, had sat circled around a fire mixing newfound myths with ancient rhythms, their songs becoming a vessel for those most radical of ideas – survival, and freedom, and hope.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“They chanted and stomped and swore to never leave”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“There was poetry as well – a luminous world always present beneath the surface, a world that people might offer up as a gift to me, if I only remembered to ask”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“If more people spoke up, perhaps things might change.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance