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Chapter 1: Character Development
Character Development
Character development
“I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant.”
—Obama, Dreams from My Father∗
“I was different, after all, potentially suspect; I had no idea who my own self was.”
—Obama, Dreams from My Father∗
“I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.”
—Obama, “A More Perfect Union”∗
Barack Obama thinks of himself as an African American, the son of an African father and American mother. His duel ancestry has given him ...
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