Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama

the past is never dead and buried—it isn’t even past.

Sometimes you can’t worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go.”

“Life is short, Barack,” he would say. “If you’re not trying to really change things out here, you might as well forget it.”

Life is short

Whole panorama of life out there. Crazy shit going on. You got to ask yourself, is this kinda stuff happening elsewhere? Is there any precedent for all this shit? You ever ask yourself that?”