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I was able to get my hands on a copy and finish! Lucky me it didn't take another 6 months!

Oh no! My library loan expired before I could finish. Well, back on the loooooong wait-list. I should've budgeted my time better to accommodate a 20 hour audiobook :)

I marvel at Michelle and Barak's fortitude. Campaigning sounds excruciating. I'm incredibly grateful there are those who are willing and able to persevere, to represent those of us who are not built to advocate on this scale.

Fascinating!!!
Why the heck do I so rarely read biographies? I freaking love them

" “Handle it how you think best,� she said... I’m sure that in her heart my mother knew already that he’d make the right choice. Every move she made, I realize now, was buttressed by the quiet confidence that she’d raised us to be adults. Our decisions were on us. It was our life, not hers, and always would be."

"She loved us consistently, but we were not over managed. her goal was to push us out into the world. 'I'm not raising babies,' she said, 'I'm raising adults.'

She and my dad offered guidelines rather than rules. It meant that as teenagers we’d never have a curfew. Instead, they’d ask, “What’s a reasonable time for you to be home?� and then trust us to stick to our word."

"I had friends whose mothers rode their highs and lows as if they were their own... She wasn't quick to judge, meddle, she bore benevolent witness to whatever our day might bring... When things were bad she gave us only a small amount of pity, when we'd done something great we received just enough praise to know she was happy with us, but never so much that it became the reason we did what we did."

Her grandfather's story... Bitterness over thwarted dreams and ambitions. The mass migration of colored folks North for economic opportunities, that were then denied them. Jesus. How different would our culture be if all those ambitious black men had been afforded the dignity of work and education???!

Omigosh she's such a good narrator! And writer! Did she have a second author to help with this?