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“And so the world watches America. The only great power in history made up of people from every corner of the planet, comprising every race and faith and cultural practice—to see if our experiment in democracy can work. To see if we can do what no other nation has ever done. To see if we can actually live up to the meaning of our creed.” (A Promised Land Quotes)
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“Either grab a drink and sit down with us or get the fuck out of here.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“I experienced failure and learned to buck up so I could rally those who’d put their trust in me. I suffered rejections and insults often enough to stop fearing them. In other words, I grew up and got my sense of humor back.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“It was my first indicator of how the issue of Black folks and the police was more polarizing than just about any other subject in American life. It seemed to tap into some of the deepest undercurrents of our nation’s psyche, touching on the rawest of nerves, perhaps because it reminded all of us, Black and white alike, that the basis of our nation’s social order had never been simply about consent.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“Just as I had in Illinois, I tried to do what I could to influence policy at the margins, pushing modest, nonpartisan measures funding to safeguard against a pandemic outbreak.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“Perhaps most troubling of all, our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of crisis. A crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be; a crisis that has left the body politic divided, angry, and mistrustful, and has allowed for an ongoing breach of institutional norms, procedural safeguards, and the adherence to basic facts that both Republicans and Democrats once took for granted.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“President Bush would end up doing all he could to make the eleven weeks between my election and his departure go smoothly.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“Then suddenly a shot of my face flashed up on the TV screen and ABC News announced that I would be the forty-fourth president of the United States.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“There was the unsettling fact that, despite whatever my mother might claim, the bullies, cheats, and self-promoters seemed to be doing quite well, while those she considered good and decent people seemed to get screwed an awful lot.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“They were actors in a rigged game, I decided, and I wanted no part of it.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“Through them, I resolved the lingering questions of my racial identity. For it turned out there was no single way to be Black; just trying to be a good man was enough.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“Two hundred and thirty-two years and they wait until the country’s falling apart before they turn it over to the brother!”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“We better win this thing or the country is screwed.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“When things are bad,” Axe said, walking next to me as we left the December meeting, “no one cares that ‘things could have been worse.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
“You could build power not by putting others down but by lifting them up.”
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
