Barack_Obama]_Dreams_from_My_Father__A_Story_of_R
“Why haven’t you ever gone to Kenya?” “I don’t know. Maybe I’m scared of what I’ll find out.” “Huh.” Johnnie lit a cigarette and ...
Over the next two months, Asante and Dr. Collier helped us develop a proposal for a youth counseling network, something to provi ...
“You’ve gained some weight,” I said as we walked to his car. Roy looked down at his generous belly and gave it a pat. “Eh, it’s ...
necessarily forget. Roy’s memories of the Old Man seemed more immediate, more taunting; for him the past remained an open sore. ...
But it was as if he hadn’t heard me. He just stared out the window, and then, as if snapping out of a trance, he waved the waitr ...
“Not just his wife’s résumé.” Johnnie reached into his briefcase and pulled out another piece of paper, waving it in t ...
but can’t admit and, in fact, must refuse if they are to wake up tomorrow, that has forced them, or others like them, eventually ...
Now he was explaining the history of churches in Chicago. There were thousands of them, and it seemed as if he knew them all: th ...
black men; that mystery was part of what had brought me to Chicago. And now, now that I was leaving Chicago, I wondered if I und ...
Would the same thing happen to me? Maybe Johnnie was right; maybe once you stripped away the rationalizations, it always came do ...
It required faith. I glanced up now at the small, second-story window of the church, imagining the old pastor inside, drafting h ...
Eventually a pretty woman with a brisk, cheerful manner came up and introduced herself as Tracy, one of Reverend Wright’s assist ...
His approach had obviously worked: the church had grown from two hundred to four thousand members during his tenure; there were ...
dignity of all humankind.” Then a commitment to the black community and black family, education, the work ethic, discipline, and ...
It was a powerful program, this cultural community, one more pliant than simple nationalism, more sustaining than my own brand o ...
centered on one man who radiated like a sun. Now that he was gone, no one could agree on what that presence had meant. The loyal ...
whiskey, his eyes shining as if he were about to cry. And I had smiled back at him, pretending to understand but actually wishin ...
“Where’s God?” I overheard the toddler ask his brother. “Shut up,” the older boy replied. “Both of you settle down right now,” t ...
reverend spoke of the hardship that the congregation would face tomorrow, the pain of those far from the mountain-top, worrying ...
Thank you, Je-sus, Thank you, Lo-ord. You brought me fro-om A mighty long way, mighty long way. “And it made no sense to me, thi ...
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