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  1. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.'Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.
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  2. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.
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  3. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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  4. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    Better to be strong,' he {Lolo} said...'if you can't be strong, be clever and make peace with someone who's strong. But always better to be strong yourself.
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  5. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.
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  6. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.
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  7. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.
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  8. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.
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  9. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    Winter came and the city {Chicago} turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds"
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  10. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control….
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  11. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.
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  12. Barack Obama _ Dreams from My Father: A Story

    the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...
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