Lauren

“As she spoke, her voice never wavered; it was the voice of someone who has forced a larger meaning out of tragedy. Or”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“If you’re going to do this work, Barack, you’ve got to stop worrying about whether people like you. They won’t.” Patronage,”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“Once I found an issue enough people cared about, I could take them into action. With enough actions, I could start to build power. Issues,”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“And I would shrug and play the question off, unable to confess that I could no longer distinguish between faith and mere folly, between faith and simple endurance; that while I believed in the sincerity I heard in their voices, I remained a reluctant skeptic, doubtful of my own motives, wary of expedient conversion, having too many quarrels with God to accept a salvation too easily won.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance