Hannah

“Looking from one bright delighted face to another I thought for one illuminating moment what fools we were to make this one man’s temper the very centre of our lives”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“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

“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

“As I chewed on the gooey popcorn, looking out at the lake, calm and turquoise now, I tried to recall a more contented moment”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance