Barack Obama Brags About The ‘Bada** Qualities’ The Women In His Life Possess

“So,” she said, looking me squarely in the eye. “Which kind of person do you want to be?”

I felt lousy. As she intended it to, her question stayed with me for a long time.”

He went on to say in the book that his mother always found ways to teach him about morality but pointed out that she never became involved in any sort of political campaign that he was aware of:

“‘The world is complicated, Bar. That’s why it’s interesting.’ Dismayed by the war in Southeast Asia, she’d end up spending most of her life there, absorbing the language and culture, setting up micro-lending programs for people in poverty long before micro-credit became trendy in international development. Appalled by racism, she would marry outside her race not once but twice, and go on to lavish what seemed like an inexhaustible love on her two brown children. Incensed by societal constraints put upon women, she’d divorce both men when they proved overbearing or disappointing, carving out a career of her own choosing, raising her kids according to her own standards of decency, and pretty much doing whatever she d*** well pleased.”

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