“My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there.
At least that's what I would choose to believe.”

—  Barack Obama, book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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